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Brief Elegy To Be Pronounced At Lenin's Tomb In Red Square, Moscow, Russia
". . . partiya Lenina . . ."
---Sergey Mikhalkov, "State Anthem Of The
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics"
Lenin's motive, July of 'eighteen, was ostensibly
provided him by political practicality:
the presence of Romanovs threatened the Revolution
so that his real intention was hidden in occlusion:
the need to avenge his older brother's death---
strung up in a judicial execution.
Vengeance seethed in, and under, Lenin's every breath
(like to a fully fired, moving locomotive's chuff.
Even the Romanov murders were not enough
(by that time) to assuage his fanatic search
for satisfaction: so he ordered the mass persecution
of the Faithful (ordained and lay) of the Orthodox Church---
a multitude of martyrs (numerous beyond calculation):
the tally of their lives---extinguished by Bolshevik snuff---
known only to Christ. And I pray that the summation
ensures Lenin's eternal agony
roasting, like pigs on spits, in the flames of his damnation.
Starward
