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Collapse of the Soviet Maya


startled starlings
start winging toward Starusky
& the smouldering elbows of Starik,
the old man, Lenin --
or rather toward the smouldering elbows
of Starik's ghost
(the ghost of a ghost)
   Startled starlings
start heading toward
                    something, something --
a piece of bread on the snowcrust -- 
a crust in the slush --
an old star twinkling on
the lips of a sobbing

			sobbing

babushka . . .

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