We are publishing a selection of poetess Ksenia Pravkina. This is the second publication of Ksenia’s texts in the F-letter magazine. While the texts of the first selection are centered around the contemplation of one’s own body and its place in the discursive space, in the second this self-reflective process is associated with the experience of the space of a big city, which has become completely strange and often hostile, and the space of relative comfort.

We love politics because it allows us not only to feel alive, but also to produce life - its new forms and quasi-forms. We love her for aesthetic reasons and for ethical reasons, but not for moral reasons. Morality differs from ethics in that it postulates something beyond life, existence, becoming. Ethics is constituted by praxis, which sometimes flows into theory (making practice theoretical and theory practical), but not subordinate to ideology.

At A.P. Chekhov, one of the main characters of “The Cherry Orchard” turns to an inanimate object in search of an interlocutor: “Dear, dear closet!...” Okay, this Gaev is full of prejudices, trying to find grains of goodness and justice in the human race, believes in a bright future and hopes for progress in human self-awareness. So be it. And what, the closet reciprocated? Is the most modern fashionable wardrobe or its century-old oak ancestor capable of simple human communication?

while water flows from the second to the first floor catfish swears splashes his whiskers against the wall the aquarium goes out of its bounds and expands one hundred and fifty liter dead end while water flows from the second to the first floor speech returns to grandfather; life returns to him he says to the fish, if you want, come with me, you will be there dried bloodworms there will be catfish for you, and then you see there will be catfish children, swim and don’t swear while water flows

Life has moved to the smartphone. * - Be human! - said the dinosaur to the monkey when she cooked scrambled eggs from his egg. And the monkey became a man, but did not refuse scrambled eggs. * Darwin was almost right. Man descended from a dinosaur that skinned the monkey that boiled its egg and climbed into it. * The human ape has suffered through bullshit. * Humans are 90 percent water, so most people let life take its course. * If you put fat on the skeleton of a dog, you won’t get a pig.