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The sadistic tiny verses. When i was a kid, in Russia were very popular short verses which were filled with black humor and cynicism. Main characters of these verses are children, who do awful things or to them there are awful things.

For example.

The boy has eaten a marinated mushrooms.

At once he has writhed and has turned blue.

No, tablets and an enema won't help.

There is no rescue from botulism.

In Russian it sounds so:

Мальчик грибов маринованных съел,

Тут же он скорчился и посинел.

Нет, не помогут таблетки и клизма,

Нету, спасения от ботулизма.

In Russian there is a rhyme. Can you make the rhyme in English version of this verse?

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The boy has eaten marinated mushrooms.

At once he writhed and turned blue.

Tablets and an enema just won't do.

From botulism there is no rescue.

I've taken a lot of poetic license in this but even as I was rewriting it it made me giggle!

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Interesting with a piece of Russian culture! Here's my translation, but I've had to take some artistic freedom to make the rhymes work :)


A boy has eaten a mushroom stew.

At once he writhed and his face turned blue.

No tablets or drugs can't stop this cataclysm

There is no rescue from botulism.

In Russian it sounds so:

Мальчик грибов маринованных съел,

Тут же он скорчился и посинел.

Нет, не помогут таблетки и клизма,

Нету, спасения от ботулизма.

Catalysm is indeed not quite right, since it more refers to suffering/pain of lots of people rather then of one individual, but rhyming with Botulism is really difficult!

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