The Cry of the Menstruating Female Poplars

Due to a poorly planned city beautification project in the 1930s, there are too many female poplars and too few males in Moscow. Every May-June, the unwilling spinsters issue a collective cry for help, a summer blizzard of unfertilized seeds. "Give us men or cut us down." Actually, it's even worse than that, because the window during which male companionship would be useful has already passed. It's not a cry for help, then, but a lament that for the 60th year running it didn't arrive in time. Check this out for more on the poplars.



The heat, the smoke, the cold, the power, the iron water — this city goes from calamity to natural calamity. It's like we're at plague 5 of 10, and the Almighty still can't get anyone's attention, and the Jews have mistaken their chains for fashionable bracelets.