After osart mission story, 2007

AFTER OSART MISSION STORY


1
Nice morning – snowing and cold,

New snowflakes cover the old

Dark sheet of snow outside…

I take my seat and start to write.


2
Yea, I remember you, DUVALL,

Departure your was early, while

With half a meter of the snow

You certainly would stay at home

Under the blanket wife prepared

An’ show yourself wouldn’t dare…


3
I wonder, whether ZHU from China

Like real antifreeze designer

Would like to start without jacket

(Forget! Bill won’t lend his blanket)

Radioactivity surveillance

But, please, this time without ladies.


4
A lot of memories evokes

White fluffy sailing down snow…


5
I feel it right under my skin

JANKE’s awaiting whether him

I’ll mention in the new edition

Of story “After OSART Mission”.

I see him concentrated well,

Eager, desiring to dwell

His eyes on sweet-of-sweetest “Rolf”

(I knew it when I saw him off):

Happy, happy, happy Rolf,

Doesn’t lose his heart at all,

Mind of his - sharp as a needle,

Body - as fit as a fiddle…

Ok, that patter was of him

Or did I mean to say tee-hee? –

May be…

Is now your request

Well satisfied? A frequent guest

I’ve heard you are in the Ukraine.

The fortune may bring us again

Together in important business.

Pray, you’ll forget of “German mistress”…

If not, I’ll have to tell: “That does it”

And join immediately MY husband…
 
6
Actually, it isn’t fair –
 
Again I haven’t yet declared

Three gentlemen – it is by them

We had our plant observed,

Inspected, checked - to the extent

When lessons are produced and learnt.

They had a very simple slogan:

“Mouths are shut, ears are open!”

Significant and major notes

They took I guess or, well, who knows…

But evidently great experience

They all received in here. Hence,

Vital and grandiose ideas

Undoubtedly did appear

In their minds - how OSARTs

To please in their host plants.


7
The first who’s subject to my surgery

Is MOAZZEN. Sort of emergency

He had, oh dear! to endure

For whole night when he was cured

By local voodoo-physicians

And out fell of OSART mission.

Nurses were shocked by fluent Russian

He showed off in the discussion

Of allergies from eating kiwi

That made him feel so badly illy.

I watched a real team explosion

When he returned - full of emotion

They were…

 And couldn’t even stop
 
To wish his health to be tip-top.

Leaving for home he highlighted

That better insight was provided

To him of kind Ukrainian nature –

PERFECT RESULT OF BEING A PATIENT!


8
“Workers earn it.

Women spend it.

Forgers fake it.

Bankers save it.

Gamblers lose it.

Who could use it?” -


LUKYANENKO!

Money-collecting

He made the team fully respect him.

(Would any of you dare boast

Money is what you like the most?)

One thing makes him completely native –

He told a fact that in the eighties

He was involved in “choosing site”

For Kh-1 and we obliged

Must be. 

His thorough observations

Resulted in recommendations

That he prepared for his plant –

To use the feedback and to grant

Interpreters a separate office.

He rose to the very surface
 
The issue of the best conditions

Needed to host OSART missions.

(Why “host” is coloured in red

Just he and I can understand…)


9
Well, I can bet my bottom dollar

GILEV as one of the white-collars

With intellectual career

(He’s not a simple engineer…)

From the results of OSART mission

Will take a serious decision
 
To turn the knowledge of his English

From superficial to profound.

Such goal should be paramount

For him. I think the need of escort

He’ll substitute by earnest effort

To have some speaking-English practice -

This is advice, don’t neglect it…

Looking at him on Monday evening

(I didn’t join in the beginning)

He seemed to me a mere boy…

It out turned he was employed

As Deputy Chief Engineer.

What a position, mamma mia!

There’s some other information…

To tell it - is a big temptation.

Now you are ALL EARS, right? –

Sorry, it has been classified!


10
Dominique, Anique, Anique

Expertise of yours is big.

The excellence of all your mission

Pushed us to urgently commission

“Third Unit” in untrodden forest

And bring it to your highest honour.

You managed, supervised, controlled,

Mission activities in whole,

Inspected, verified and checked

All areas at Plant. Instead

Of being a boring monitor

You looked a merry visitor

Sending your smiles here an’ there,

Believe me that none could compare:

Smiles of Andrey and Janke fade

In shadows of utter fame

You’ve earned. And not a single place

You left striving to SEE & TASTE

SUCCESS. Its meaning was expressed

In catchwords, declarations… Rest

Was never seen in OSART Tsar.

Rhyme here asks for “super-star”

And I’m sure none will mind

This title. What was very fine -

You were provided quite a lot

Of the-best-quality support
 
By your assistant. Or in short,

By Sancho to his Don Quixote.

([kwiks;t] will spoil the rhyme a lot,

That’s why use Spanish [donki ;hot])


11
The gentleman who can’t be missed -

I’ve no right him to omit -

With widespread very Russian name

But with the roots from the Ukraine -

Is IVANOV. As for his grandma -

My feelings, intuition tell me -

She was Odessian.  Ivanov
 
Was later changed to Ivanoff.

For sure, Canada suggests

Better conditions for the rest,

Employment…

But to have impression

Of real motherland, Odessa

Must be encountered. To know
 
What it is like I will below

Present a famous situation
 
Typical for Odessian nation:


- If I keep straight in this direction,

Will there be a railroad station?

- The station will be, yea, right there

(The usual answer is prepared

By Odessits for such occasion)

Even if you change destination.



12
I wish that I was able soon

At coffee break in “Meeting Room”

With heaps of cookies, fruit and sweets

To see, to hold you and to greet:

HI, Bill Duvall, HELLO, Nick,

The same as Kolya, isn’t it?

SALUT, Grandjean, the tallest Belgium

(French roots were definitely major),

Conqueror Dubois, BONJOUR,

You won your greatest Waterloo!

DOBR; DE;, Duchac Alexender

And Lubo Dobis. I remember

To say to Grunda Czech AHOJ -

Such words are utterly enjoyed

By everyone. Again, HALLO,

Happy-of-happiest fellow

From Germany, the sweetheart Rolf,

The most optimistic of

Your team. HOLA is to be said

To him who follows sunsets

Between two “terras” at the plainest -

You got it! – the Mediterranean,

That is a nice place for the artists

El Greco, Rafael…Name Santi

He changed to Don Albaladejo,

For it produces longer echo...

PRIVET, Andrey, Vitaliy, Sasha -

Понятно, это парни наши!

SALAAM, Iranian survivor,

NI HAO, cold-resistant China.

(I ain’t keen hieroglyphs learner,

Sorry, but tried to keep good manner).


13
This is the end. But all in all,

You know well the world is small…

And I could have a real chance

To see you back. So, in advance

I tell you: “Nice to see you, (name).

Welcome to visit the Ukraine”.


P.S.
The story was from Lara Grynn

(Clear, it is a pseudonym).