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For the victims of the January 24, 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing

Thirty five extinguished breaths

Thirty five senseless deaths
Thirty five names posted today
in a world morally grey
To be buried in the search-engine ten-minute update
To be snatched away to their pointless fate
No! I object, I will not let
the machine of our world have them just yet.
Vladimir Babarykin, forty four, stay with us
Marina Babenko, forty three, stay with us
Ildus Yunusovich Gataulin, thirty six, stay with us
Igor Garkin, fifty five, stay with us
Irina Konstantinova Petrunin, nineteen, stay with us
Victor Pernyatin, sixty one, stay with us
Nikolai Yurashku, eighty seven, stay with us
stay with us, stay with us, stay with us
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Silenced voices, mute button on the remote

playwrights who wont ever write again
Stopped heartbeats, an empty hanger for a missing coat
briefcases full of paperwork and pain
Lost moments, forgotten gifts to relatives forgotten
in the shuffle of the injured feet
Last text messages, emoticons and that dreaded mute button
before the blast melted the cell phones in the heat
Nikolai Pavlovich Kochergin, sixty eight, stay with us
Denis Noodles, thirty seven, stay with us
Natalia Volkova, thirty nine, stay with us
Oleg Tomin, thirty six, stay with us
Boris Smirnov, fifty two, stay with us
Boris Pustovalov, sixty one, stay with us
Kiril Aleksseevich Badrashov, thirty eight, stay with us
stay with us, stay with us, stay with us
I will name them here, though I know them not
they deserve to be mourned
I will sing them here, though I do not share their lot
.they deserve to be heard
I will pause in my hurried life, whats a few breaths of mine?
they deserve to be given a moment
I will kneel at their grave, and say a prayer, write a line
they deserve the effort, the time is well spent
Kirill Baybuza, twenty three, stay with us
Shishkin Konstantin, fifty one, stay with us
Vadim Izmailov, forty six, stay with us
Natalia Isaev, twenty four, stay with us
Vic Eldarovich Lomzharidze, thirty eight, stay with us
Valery Belousov, forty eight, stay with us
Viktor Ivanovich Dubovitsky, thirty eight, stay with us
stay with us, stay with us, stay with us

Thirty five dead bodies that once yearned

Thirty five names that once earned
Thirty five people that mattered just yesterday
in our world morally grey
To be buried in a cold grave, with a wreath from the state
To be covered up by the soil, on some pointless date
No! I object, I will not permit
my personal world to treat this as just a news bit
Elijah E. Matveev, thirty four, stay with us
Andrei Vladimirovich Hripankov, forty three, stay with us
Renat Shafkatovich Sigmatulin, forty four, stay with us
Victor Trofimovich Shmatyuk, fifty three, stay with us
Alexey Zubritsky, thirty five, stay with us
Alexei Borisovich Dude, forty, stay with us
Jabar Muhamedzhanovich Sabir, forty seven, stay with us
stay with us, stay with us, stay with us
You can drop them now, delete button or backspace will do
from the payroll list and the retirement plan
You can take a red pen, or blue one if you prefer, some do
and mark their files terminated, each and every one
Manila envelope, or a white one with self adhesive strip
and an Avery label will do the trick
Magic marker, or bright yellow highlighter, paper clip
to mark the personnel file, can you hear it squeak?
Murat Hudeynazarovich Khaknazar, twenty three, stay with us
Orinbay Rometovich Mombetov, forty five, stay with us
Nikolay Ivanovich Ivanov, forty one, stay with us
Maria Vallner Heidi, forty nine, stay with us
Hendrik Minderop, thrity four, stay with us
Anna Mashutin, twenty nine, stay with us
Gordon Campbell Kousland, thirty nine, stay with us
stay with us, stay with us, stay with us

Thirty five men and women dead for no reason at all

Thirty five human beings like bricks in the Berlin wall
Thirty five reflections of you and me on another day
in this world morally grey
To be buried with news newer still, of more of the worlds hate
To be covered up by time, as the hour of their passing passes late
No! I object, I will not allow
to let them depart the airport without at least a bow.
January 26, 2011

Konrad Tademar
List of the names of the Victims in Russian:

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