Fill Systemhaus, sassy and caustic A senior from Primorsky Krai read the lesson of literature obscene poem supposedly authored by Mayakovsky, and immediately became famous all over the country. About this event wrote all the national media, in school are going to inspect, on the verge of dismissal, case comment, state Duma deputies and regional officials. The editors of N + 1 asked folklorist Michael Lurie from the European University in Saint Petersburg to explain why there are such poems, and how they take students. Exactly what this text has nothing to Mayakovsky. Moreover, Mayakovsky, contrary to the opinion of today’s schoolchildren were not fond of ribald poetry. The linguist Roman Jakobson, a close friend of the poet, in his memoirs wrote: “Mayakovsky was proud to have never written a ribald poem. In addition to such couplets as: “you Cannot climb the goat Elsa is punished!” or “Healthy Jadwiga Elsa
