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Burying Lenin
They keep burying Lenin in Moscow but How well this mummy has been preserved The hammer-and-sickle flag no longer flies no longer marches — dark-booted phantom — but where is the famous worker's cap that he waved — clasped expertly between his enlightened fingers and have designs on the fist But Lenin's body lies that the Red Army swore to defend the Motherland the Pioneer children in red bandanas took their oaths Finding Hitler's Head Darker than you, it says, As far as the head's concerned, Charles Fishman is the author of The Death Mazurka, a 1989 American Library Association Outstanding Book of the Year, that was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His more recent books include Chopin's Piano (Time Being Books) and In the Language of Women, to be released this spring by Casa de Snapdragon. (contact • website) |
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