Grëzofars («грёзофарс,» «dream-farce») is a neologism coined by the poet Igor Severyanin (1887–1941), the self-declared «king» of Russian Ego-Futurism, whose bombastic, self-inventing vocabulary — grëzofars among the best-known examples — became a signature of his pre-revolutionary poetic persona, mixing genuine lyrical sweep with a wink of self-parody. Zhorik’s whole taxi-side oration, ending in a declaimed quatrain and a theatrical flourish, borrows the overheated, cosmic-scale rhetoric of the wider Russian Silver Age — the early-20th-century flowering of Symbolist and Ego-Futurist poetry that Severyanin, alongside figures like Blok and Balmont, helped define — deployed here entirely for comic effect, by a small-time hustler declaiming poetry on his way to get drunk with actresses.