"Story of a Little Girl With No Father or Mother About a Cow"

There are few cows, since they get eaten.  A cow has legs at its four corners.  Beef patties are made from a cow, everybody gets one patty, but potatoes grow separately.  A cow gives milk herself; other animals try, but can't.  It's a pity they can't, it would be better if they could.  The girls are full of meat patty; they've gone to bed by themselves and they smell.  I'm bored.

--Andrey Platonov in a draft for Happy Moscow, reprinted in a footnote to the New York Review of  Books edition of the novel, "translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and others," at 234-5.