On the pavement
of my trampled soul
the steps of madmen
weave the prints of rude crude words.

"1" (1913); translation from Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Bedbug and Selected Poetry. Ed. with introd. by Patricia Blake. Trans. by Max Hayward and George Reavey. Reprint. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 1975 [1960]. ISBN 0-253-20189-6. p. 53.