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                                The Staff Cafeteria at the Lubyanka

Spaghetti again?

A busy day in the cellar.  Admin
Wants more cells cleared for Lenin’s birthday bash
They come along okay until we pass the offices
And then they know. Some of them cry. It’s rough

Put it on my tab

It’s pretty rough upstairs, too, meeting your quota
Of counter-revolutionaries and recidivists
You just drag them downstairs and then shoot them
Easy-peasey for you, but the paperwork…!

Two cups of tea

Shop-talk and gossip, who got a promotion
Budgets and schedules, and comradely devotion