Dec 2015
Nothing but
Salted fish to eat
On the way
To the Goulag camp
And the train
It was indeed
So dark and damp
Hope was not lost
No water
So she licked
The train parts
Covered in frost
They Sang For Their husbands
On the way to the Goulag
Salted fish to eat
On the way
To the Goulag camp
And the train
It was indeed
So dark and damp
Hope was not lost
No water
So she licked
The train parts
Covered in frost
They Sang For Their husbands
On the way to the Goulag
Written after hearing an account of a woman's experience on the way to the Goulag under Stalin's purges. During the Great Terror of 1936 to 1939 women were arrested under article 58. Their only crime being their association as "wives of enemies of the people."
