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Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Final Measures; Shortly After "Comrade" Lenin's Death [Repost]
Remember with me how Comrade Lenin laughed---
in a vociferous tone, even melodramatic---
to hear some "duchess" tossed down a mine's shaft:
Elizabeth Romanov, the nun and Orthodox fanatic.
But what does the Party's wisdom say about disturbing dreams?
Are they to be considered a bourgeois aberration?
Sleeping, I have looked upon a vast conflagration---
a leaping and writhing flame, with heat immeasurable
(as if from a star's iridescent core, a full
blast). From within it I heard the most haunting, horrific screams,
in Comrade Lenin's voice, which is quite unmistakeable.
On that pit's floor, they tell me, she sang hymns until she died:
to this the comrades who tossed her in there testified.
Starward
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