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Elegy For A Russian Poet, After The October Revolution
The Major poet, bound to some fencepost,
keeps silent at the slow approach of fate.
The Commissar, once his engaging host,
was otherwise detained, arriving late.
The Commissar dared to ask clemency.
But Comrade Lenin's stern, stringent conclusion
was "Nothing can obstruct the Revolution,"
and "We have slain the old morality."
The Poet watches snow begin to fly
out of clouds heavy in the steel-gray sky.
Some snow will land and mix with his blood's red
as it spurts quickly, after he slumps dead.
Lenin declared, "The People will require
this death." So Marxist marksmen aim, and fire.
Starward
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