Homeless: Poems and prose

His own among strangers, a stranger among their own ... It is not easy to find your place in the world, especially when fate throws you into another hemisphere. Another mentality, traditions, customs - how to join another culture in civilization, in which there is no culture as such? One big such Melting Pot (English, a melting boiler, a model of ethnic development, promoted in America in the 20th century), in which one has to be cooked, or from one boiler to another, like Vanyusha in the fairy tale Humpbacked Horse, to jump in order to jump in order “Get out of the water”, and even transform with the help of that very skate. Only now the magic skates of the humpbaches do not meet everyone in the way. A chance, fate, God"s Providence, Karma - what leads a person along the road of life? It seems that the answer is obvious. Different stories were weaved into one fate described in the stories presented in the book of Alexei Gorbatov. It is based on real events