Roman Osminkin (b. 1979) is a poet, performer, art critic, and activist. He is a postgraduate student at the Russian Institute of Art History (in the Sector of Current Problems of Artistic Culture). He is the author of the books “Comrade-Thing” (2010) and “Comrade-Word” (2012). He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Translit”, a participant in the group “Laboratory of Poetic Actionism”, and the musical project “TECHNO-POETRY”. He is the winner of the SLAM St. Petersburg 2006 and SLAM St. Petersburg 2010 tournaments. His publications have appeared in the magazines “NLO”, “Translit”, “Khreshchatyk”, “Project Baltia”, and in the anthologies “Petersburg Poetic Formation” (2008) and “Collected Works. Volume 1: Poetry of St. Petersburg 2009”. He lives in St. Petersburg. R. Osminkin's poems, revealing the core of literary sociality, evoke memories of the communal housing projects of the 1920s, which envisioned complete transparency in everyday life. Any shared life, according to the theorists of such utopian sociality, was transformed into a collective life, abolishing the boundaries between private and public. This is precisely what happens in these poems, where the private becomes public, the public becomes private, and the familiar pattern of everyday relationships is transformed into a spectacle with an unpredictable ending. This book contains profanity.