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Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the veritable champion of the proletariat and the downtrodden masses, and who counted among his foremost friends LENIN, STALIN and TROTSKY, was poisoned with camphor by his doctor Levin at the instigation of Yagoda, the former Chief of Secret Police in 1936. His father passed away when he was five, and his paternal grandfather turned him out of the family home after subjecting him to merciless thrashings which had him bed-ridden for weeks at a time. He was condemned to roam the streets and wilds for a living right from his teens and his attempted suicide ruined his own lungs for life. His experiences, unlike those of the cosetted and untrammeled bourgeois Tolstoy's (whose wife besides slaved as his literary amanuensis: no resemblance to Patricia and Naipaul though), fed his immensely popular stories, novels, plays, articles and his autobiographical trilogy, culled from living in Russia (Nizhny, Novgorod), Georgia (Tiflis), Italy (Sorrentino, Capri) and the USA (New York). For Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, the reputed “Father of Soviet Literature” Now the Cossack rode roughshod From Novgorod to Vladivostock Trans-Siberian rocked the railroad -40° suckled by deepfreeze livestock Tartar’s shuddered locks splayed on docks On Syrian shores an Assad naval sword Levin commits sin in Stalin’s Krêmlin Yagoda in Tsarist skin makes Lenin turn Putin Who executed the high Bolshoi entrechat on the battleship Potemkin Was it Kerensky or the scélerat or Rasputin under Romanov skin Unstrip the balalaika chez the Peshkov to let grandma kitchen tales unfold Levin commits sin in Stalin’s Krêmlin Yagoda in Tsarist skin makes Putin turn Lenin Go now Ivanko! Cut hermit Miron’s head off and his prayer for mankind eternally cold Ivan the Terrible’ll make Daech listen to Lavrov no camphor poison could ever be Soviet sold Did Yagoda tell Saudi Prince Al-Qaïda off Or a Putin not bar lethal secret tatami hold Levin commits sin in Stalin’s Krêmlin Yagoda in Tsarist skin makes Lenin turn Putin No petty Levin plied the Volga or bakery Escaped the pogroms under Stalin enmity The long arm of rivalry split Trotsky skull in exiled lost Méjico City Drained the peoples’ lungs of victory In the proletariat Chief Maxim Gorky! Levin commits sin in Stalin’s Krêmlin Yagoda in Tsarist skin makes Putin turn Lenin © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016
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