Sadists/Slavists, Coleslaw/Tshcheslaw, and Dostoevsky...

Sun Oct 13 20:13:36 UTC 2002

O Rus' scholar! Where is your troika racing?

A fiery peasant wagon ascends above the village,

bearing aloft on the sweltering updraft of inspiration

a prophet of a new school of literary criticism with doors like wings and open halls that do not betray the putrescence of mafia,

his little travail bag about to bust its seams with tiny, timid codes, crawling allusions, and squandered Revelations...

Down below, cabbage litters Dostoevsky's spiralling staircase

outside the old woman's kitchen

where prophets' heads are shredded without flinching,

in strict accord with the grim guidelines of the MLA style sheet

and the saddest grins of the AATSEEL Convention.

Tshcheslav watches and lords it over all

and his aging neutered child, too, Tshcheslavie...

John Reed

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