Dad
Dad, why do clouds so often look like wings? Is that why people invented angels?
Claude, when he was preparing the stand-in draft for this song, called it a “companion piece to ДвадцатьДвадцать,” which is apt enough. What he didn’t know is that this song — the poem, rather — was written by my sister, Sasha. Apart from the last, “father’s” verse: that one I wrote, going from her paraphrase of discussing those very poems with her ChatGPT. A cross-generational, cross-species collab of the living and the dead, machine and human.
Is this why people invented angels?
The translation is a crib, not a singing version.
Music: Vova Zakharov
Lyrics: Sasha Zakharova, Vova Zakharov