"James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the …
The lice retreated and bunched together in a swarm. Then the lice were shot point blank by a microscope. Disinfectant hammered and hammered with its flail. The enemies fell, pulling up their little legs. And up above, flapping its prescription-flag, the People's Health Commissariat took a victory lap.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky Selected Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Page 241)