В далеком созвездии Тау Кита [V dalekom sozvezdii Tau Kita] [English translation]

Everything became for us unclear,

In Tau Kita, the distant constellation,-

We sending the signal:" What's going on there?"-

And they send us back:" F..." I'd rather not mention.

On Tau Kita

They running out of room on this star-

They, by the way, live differently-

Our friends with the same mentality.

Here I'm, moving with the speed of light

Without a sweat, but with some help from above,

Towards that Tau Kita, precisely I fly,

So I can right there sort it out .

On Tau Kita

Something is wrong with the star-

There, the taukitaiskiy* brotherhood

Gone crazy,- as we understood.

While I lie in suspended animation,

Those taukitans are brawling,-

Ever less I've with them communication:

They are such hooligans, it's their calling.

The taukitans alphabet

Has only few words, it must be said-

And their order is bourgeois,

Their humor is ugly by far.

I landed my starship, like my own but,

Slightly bending the reflector though.

I shouted in taukitans:"Vivat!"

In our language it is "Hello!"

The taukitans love to cheat,

All their appearance is a deceit,-

We can't compete against them there:

They can appear and then dissolve in the air...

To me taukitans- like papuan for you-

They were mentioned to me only briefly, I think,

I shouted:" The Galaxy is ashamed of you!"-

In reply they winked me with something.

On Tau Kita,

The conditions are tough:

It's stuffy here, there is no atmosphere,-

But taukitans are friendly and fair.

In the heat of the moment I screamed: f---k y---r mo----r, something like that!..

But my cibernetic guide did well

So precisely translated what I have said,

That I was ashamed of myself.

But taukitans

Are such a scum-

Perhaps, they managed to fill themselves with alcohol:

They appear, or quickly dissolved...

" You're men, I scream, you're brothers by sex!

So why..." then my voice disappeared.

I grabbed taukitan woman by the breasts:

Come on,- I'm saying,- confess, my dear!...

"Go away!": she said-

Sort off, we're way ahead-

We don't want to do anything with men,-

And from now on, we'll use agamobium!*

I don't remember how my starship left the planet,

In a drinking mood I'm flying:

The Earth must have moved three hundred years ahead

According to wretched theory of Einstein!

What if, also there, on Earth,

As on Tau Kita it was,

The knowledge terribly increased,-

What if, even there, agamobium now they practised?!

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky