Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Mention Stalin in Your Poem - a poem, but "Stalin" is mentioned only in the title

 

Lawrence Hall

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Mention Stalin in Your Poem

 

“It was discovered that there was not one mention of Stalin in your poem…”

 

-Yevtushenko, A Precocious Autobiography, p. 67

 

A chill October morning of brilliant air

Leaves turning in their colors and on their stems

In the healing-cool Cerean breeze

As the goddess takes her dreamy walk

 

This bright October morning of happiness

It’s time to put the garden tools away

Summer, in need of healing, begins to rest

Each moment is an earth-crafted waykreuz

 

But to approved poets this morning is nothing

For it makes no mention of anti-colonialism

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