A rat lives in a cage. The cage is in a room, and a poet lives in the room. The room is in a large communal apartment. And the apartment is in a huge house with many windows that resemble the empty eyes of a blind man. The house stands in a courtyard-well, and next to the house stands a mustachioed janitor in tarpaulin boots. The courtyard is in a city, a big city with streets, hairdressers, cars, movie theaters... And the city is in the country. And outside - 1939...
