#Translate in Russian without sounding like Nabokov Lite
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Trying to explain ADHD like "I got overwhelmed by the prospect of taking out two weeks' worth of trash so I started translating Franz Wright's poem 'Language my country' into Russian"
#Sparse parsimonious poem and hard to#Translate in Russian without sounding like Nabokov Lite#It's a fun challenge#Since it relies on rhymes and 'customary pairs' that are different in each language#And I am changing the structure to preserve some of the more important semantics
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