Sunday, July 10, 2022

The Great Big Russian Doomsday Submarine - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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The Great Big Russian Doomsday Submarine

 

As with Leviathan or Moby Dick

Or Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, perhaps

The Belgorod haunts the darkness of the seas

And it haunts our minds, our darkest fears

 

We scorn shabby Russian gimcrackery

The wreckage of tanks, the ashes of men

Whose feeble aircraft flame down from the sky

But this thing – it needs to work only once

 

What if it’s real, so very real

That we don’t finish…

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