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We can have our Pushkin, all thinky and sad And our poker-playing pups, cheating at cards Ruslan and Ludmylla dancing on ice At the Houston Airport Holiday Inn Did Pushkin paint the poker-playing pups Or carve tetrameters while in his cups? That green baize poker table, a samovar And the Big Giant Head, who needs an ace We can have our Pushkin, all thinky and sad And too those kitschy dogs, being real bad!
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 4:01 PM UTC
Alexander Pushkin and Those Poker-Playing Dogs (a Russia series, 18)
We can have our Pushkin, all thinky and sad And our poker-playing pups, cheating at cards Ruslan and Ludmylla dancing on ice At the Houston Airport Holiday Inn Did Pushkin paint the poker-playing pups Or carve tetrameters while in his cups? That green baize poker table, a samovar And the Big Giant Head, who needs an ace We can have our Pushkin, all thinky and sad And too those kitschy dogs, being real bad!
A happy boyhood memory - pictures of those poker-playing dogs in the barber shop.
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 4:01 PM UTC
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