Quack.



A dictator is a dictator is a dictator,
you could have retired to Sussex in democracy,
no need for the bloody revolution, every forty years.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Brezhnev looks at the chess board
and hears the word.
"Checkmate",
don't hesitate, smiles and shakes the hand of his opponent.

Deep in an absolute zero, Siberian prison camp,
the heating begins to work,
madwomen start to write poetry.

We have a Kurdish freedom fighter in our street,
he waits for the beauty of spring
and we tell him the names of the flowers.

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