Jun 2018
Someone demands an immigration czar
Which could be interesting: a crown, a throne
A double-eagle flag, the border guards
Singing a Troparian while on patrol
On the Steppes of Central Texas 1
The Czar in progress royal comes to see
His happy villagers waving MREs
From behind the merry Potemkin wire
The Czar, contented, turns his escort then
To Petersburg, and lunch at the Little Red Hen
1 Cf Borodin's "On the Steppes of Central Asia"
Which could be interesting: a crown, a throne
A double-eagle flag, the border guards
Singing a Troparian while on patrol
On the Steppes of Central Texas 1
The Czar in progress royal comes to see
His happy villagers waving MREs
From behind the merry Potemkin wire
The Czar, contented, turns his escort then
To Petersburg, and lunch at the Little Red Hen
1 Cf Borodin's "On the Steppes of Central Asia"
Let no one take this scribble as anything more than a bit of fun about the use of “czar” in a mixed republic / democracy. I am about a thousand miles from the border and don’t know what’s going on there, and prudently do not trust any news source.
Written by
Lawrence Hall
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