After the poem has been finished, the two-month break in Brik-Mayakovsky relations came to an end, but the damage done proved to be irrevocable. "Now I am free from placards and love," Mayakovsky confessed in his poem "For the Jubilee" (1924). Before that Lilya told him she was no longer in love with him, adding: "I think you too love me lesser now and won't be suffering too much."
