Lawrence Hall
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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
A poem is itself.