Once more about Mayakovsky’s «children» (on the issue of interpreting the poem "A few words about myself")

The article presents an attempt at analyzing and interpreting V. Mayakovsky’s poem A Few Words about Myself in the context of lyrical cyclization. The analysis of the context in which the poem is put in the poet’s first and second books (intra vitam) helps better understand the meaning of the notorious line «I love to watch children dying».