Tuesday, November 3, 2020

The Staff Cafeteria at the Lubyanka - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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The Staff Cafeteria at the Lubyanka

 

Spaghetti again?

 

A busy day in the cellar.  Admin

Wants more cells cleared for Lenin’s birthday bash

They come along okay until we pass the offices

And then they know. Some of them cry. It’s rough

 

Put it on my tab

 

It’s pretty rough upstairs, too, meeting your quota

Of counter-revolutionaries and recidivists

You just drag them downstairs and then shoot them

Easy-peasey for you, but the paperwork…!

 

Two cups of tea

 

Shop-talk and gossip, who got a promotion

Budgets and schedules, and comradely devotion

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