My new blog is posted below this. Can’t figure out why. grrrrrr.
Hey Putin
Sit back a week or two
With your Russian predecessors
Etched in the world with admiration and honor
Unlike tyrants, murderers, war criminals
Covered with ashes and human blood,
On dusty back shelves of Russian history.
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Listen to Tchaikovsky’s symphonies –
Spend an evening with Swan Lake –
Get on your yacht with Leo Tolstoy
And War and Peace.
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You wish to be the most feared?
The most statued figure in all of Russia?
Be among the true greats of your history books?
Pick up your pen, Putin.
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Poets were feared more than the KGB
During days of famine and war.
Pick up your pen, Putin,
Write a poem or two or more.
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On the shelves of 891.71, between
Tsvetaeva and Pushkin
There is space for you.
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A statue of Putin
In St. Petersburg and Leningard
Poet of Peace.
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