You and I, we'll sit for a while in the kitchen,
the good smell of kerosene,

and a sharp knife for the big round loaf.
Pump the stove up high.

And have some string handy,
for the basket, before the break of day,

to take to the station,
where no one can come after us.

(Ossip Mandelstam
Lenningrad, January, 1931)