Nunsexmonkrock Side B
..."Get high on yourself baby
You
The revolution"
It wasn’t Reagan chirping away
That brought down the Berlin Wall
It was Nina Hagen brawling like a sprung spider
From a death crack in the wall
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Categories:
brezhnev, celebrity, culture, humanity, identity,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
brezhnev, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Actually I Like Russia
...Actually, I like Russia
But want her to join Asia:
Doesn’t really belong to Europe;
Like she is there tired with a rope:
So much Asian bravado:
Others under my shadow!
Shall I forget her Brez...
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Categories:
brezhnev, america, conflict, death, people,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
brezhnev, adventure, appreciation, bullying, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
...Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)...
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Categories:
brezhnev, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
...The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
brezhnev, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Sebastopol
...Sebastopol
Was it a dream
Soldiers
In thick ankle deep
Overcoats
And I had none
It gets dark early
In Sebastopol
A blessing
A tried to buy
An overcoat
Was arrested
Sweet wine they s...
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Categories:
brezhnev, april,
Form: Chastushka
King Vlad Redux - Second Cold War
...King Vlad Redux – Second Cold War
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s grimy fingerprints on current history
are for him nothing to gloat about—au contraire I say emphatically:
His actions bespeak one...
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Categories:
brezhnev, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, evil,
Form: Quatrain
King Vlad
...King Vlad is anything but Democracy’s man of the hour.
Rather, à coup sûr, he’s really Stalin’s nasty little boy
who ironically parades "svoboda" and "glasnost" like
he really means them—actually...
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Categories:
brezhnev, betrayal, corruption, emotions, evil,
Form: Free verse
Kids' Paintings of Their Mothers
...KIDS' PAINTINGS OF THEIR MOTHERS
A refined, young, black-haired woman who plays violin in the orchestra,
Vassili’s mum, was distinctly simeon-featured and aged,
Like a PLANET OF THE APES...
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Categories:
brezhnev, childhood
Form: Verse