Collapsed Lexicon | Page 83

  And  Czechs  cried  fears  when  Russian  tanks,   Thundered  through  their  traumoid  streets   Pretending  not  to  be  elite.   As  one  old  soldier  put  it:   "The  West  and  East  preach  different  dreams,   But  ride  the  same  black  limousines."     Stay  a  while?   These  sheets  are  cold   Without  your  sighing  skin;   And  this  poet  in  the  backfield   Is  writing   Nothing   Interesting.     By  Strider  Marcus  Jones                                 83