[struwwelpeter]

I also had to do an article by this one editorialist who used rhymes from Galich. I think you mentioned him once. How exactly would this translate:

Ehpizod 1

"Nachem vot ehdak: pyat' zaychat reshili exat' v Tver'.
A v dver' stuchat, a v dver' stuchat - poka ne v ehtu dver'."


Ehpizod 2

"Na vole sneg, na kukhne chad, vsya komnata v dymu,
a v dver' stuchat, a v dver' stuchat, na ehtot raz - k nemu."

Which I took to mean:

Episode 1: Let's start thus: 5 hares decided to travel to Tver. But they knock at the door, but they knock at the door - for now not at that door.


Episode 2

"There is snow on the ox, soot in the kitchen, the whole room is smoky, but they knock at the door, but they knock at the door - this time to him.

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS SUPPOSED TO MEAN????!!!

[GSlob]

The Galich poem you quoted deals with Daniil Kharms, who was a poet- absurdist and perished in GULAG. Since the absurdists had difficult time existing in the Russia of socialist realism, he had to squeeze a barebones living by occasionally writing poetry for children - which was published maybe once a year due to watchful censorship. This serves as a background.
The first fragment quotes the beginning of one of his works - with the background NKVD knocks on the other doors to arrest and disappear the inhabitants, probably in the same building - but as yet it is not HIS door being knocked on.
The second fragment deals with his arrest - "Na vole" - outside [of the prison], "in freedom" So- "outside it's snowing [or snow lies]", na kukhne chad - the "kitchen is [full of smoke], and so is the room" - burning, or trying to burn, forbidden books, manuscripts and other "incriminating" material -BECAUSE they are knocking on the door [again], and this time the door is HIS.