No one s better than us

Journalists, scholars, and just onlookers are gathering in advance. The event is about to begin, and it promises to be an impressive spectacle. Everyone is getting their notebooks, binoculars, digital voice recorders, and smartphones ready. It’s all right if you failed to show up; absentees will stay at their homes, petrified in front of television screens, catching every single word greedily – hoping that this time, luck will smile at them.

And now, it begins.

Have you ever seen anything like this?

Turning somersaults in midair, and screaming wildly, they are rushing along the streets, spluttering their motto: “We were created! Happy to be created, we bow to the one who created us. In orderly rows, with our hands tied, with our mouths blindfolded, we are going to bow and scrape. Not to you, for you did not create us. We're going to beat you. Better disappear, right away. Preferably, as a biological species. Don't aggravate us. Don't interfere with the important process. The one who created us, in turn, had been created by someone in a higher place. And the one in the higher place, in turn, had been created by someone else in even a higher place. We were not created to tolerate you, who are sticking out like sore thumbs. No one’s better than us! No one’s better than us! No one’s be.... "

The journalists, the scholars, and the common onlookers see them off. The sound sweeps by, melts down, and drifts away. Soon they themselves disappear, leaving no one wondering: "What was that?"


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Опубликовано в https://www.poetry.com/poem/97595/no-one’s-better-than-us
Русский перевод http://stihi.ru/2021/04/15/3111