Table of Contents
PART I: Absolute Zero 7
New Dreams 8
The Hour of Freedom Fighters 10
One Day in the Life 12
Passions over a Leave 14
Dmytryk 17
So Haysyn It Is 19
Thirty 22
Class Conflict 24
Somebody Else 26
Camp 28
War Is Not Interesting 30
Imitation 32
A Green Chinese Tractor 35
Keep Writing, Chekh 37
Betrayal / Victory 39
Camouflage Cockroaches 41
Long T-shirts 44
It’s All Good 47
PART II: Fall, Winter, and Spring Again 49
That Same Gas Station 50
We Are Here 52
Guiding Principles 54
Norms 56
Absolute Zero 58
Our Friends 61
Light Gray Zone 63
The Sound of the Train Station 65
Night Watch 67
Neighbors 69
Donbas’s Quiet Sun 71
New Old Dream 73
We Succeeded 75
A Unique Fall 78
Almost like in the Stories 80
11120th Day of Life 82
A Miracle Didn’t Happen 84
New Year’s Eve 86
Responsibility 88
Below Zero 90
Cerebral Palsy 92
Boys 94
Two Years Ago 97
War Isn’t Fashionable 99
They Don’t Like Those Kind in the Army 101
A Unique Winter 103
Silence 106
Winter Crops 108
Lethargy 110
Inescapable Experience 112
A Lifetime and a Little More 114
Cotard’s Syndrome 116
A Quasi-Religious Worldview 118
Such People, Such Rocks 120
Our Anniversary Somewhere in the Donbas 122
Seventeen Bags of Paskas 125
Watching Out for the Enemy 128
A Unique Spring 130
Prostitutes Are Always Following the Army 132
Ode to New Balance 134
The Abuse 136
The End of the Fifth Tour 138
The Apricots of Donbas 140
The Last Night 142