The Real End of the Cold War 1989

THE REAL END OF THE COLD WAR  1989



This is why the Soviet Union collapsed?

The rail engineers were then all women  -

Who stopped working in uniform - relapsed

(This is why the Soviet Union collapsed.)

They did cocaine lines  on the steel,  perhaps

Relaxing on the job by  rail-sittin’.

This is why the Soviet Union collapsed:

The rail engineers were then all women.

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NOTE

Each line  has  ten syllables.   The word “soviet” seems to have  three   syllables  but  is usually pronounced with only two  - as  “sov”   “yet”.    Likewise “union”  is usually “yun”  “yon”

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Written  by  Sydney Peck   for 

Nette Onclaud’s contest   IN THE AFTERGLOW

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011



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Date: 8/15/2011 10:37:00 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved placement in Nette's "In The Afterglow" contest Syd. Love, Carol
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Date: 8/14/2011 8:34:00 PM
Congratulations on the win in the contest of nette,sydney
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Date: 8/14/2011 7:45:00 PM
I'm confused tetrameter has 8 syllables per line yes? anyone I think this may be more meaningfull to folks in Russia lol as a feminist I can't get behind ;) the sentiment? love ya anyway! congrad's
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Date: 8/14/2011 5:35:00 PM
Sydney, Great to see your poem doing well in Nette's contest. Congratulations on your worthy poem's place. Agape, Moses
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Date: 8/14/2011 4:26:00 PM
Congrats Sydney on taking fifth place in Nette's contest with this exquisite entry ...
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Date: 8/8/2011 12:39:00 PM
Hahaha... I love this poem! Splendid rhyming, off the-chain imagination!
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Date: 8/7/2011 6:38:00 PM
Wonderful entry to the contest with soft humor, Sydney
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