Wednesday, April 20, 2022

"Wimbledon to Ban Russians" - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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“Wimbledon to Ban Russians”

 

-News Item

 

Tchaikovsky, thus, is forbidden to go

Akhmatova is well and sternly gated

No one will greet Dostoyevsky, oh, no

Tolstoy missed his train (some are elated)

 

Bulgakov won’t be there at center court

Nor yet his Margarita on her broom

Tsvaetaeva will certainly miss all the sport

Gogol will watch on tv in his hotel room

 

And is there a point to any of this

Except for a popular boo and hiss?

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