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
