"I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee..."

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MARIAM NEIGER Greeting the First Secretary Again workers and schoolchildren three-deep along the boulevards: this time it was not a cosmonaut, not the Abyssinian emperor, it was Brezhnev who stood, Caesar-in-chariot, monolithic three-quarters profile, in a long open black car, next to the nervous host – himself a first secretary, but how slight! And Brezhnev an impassive mound. His feral eyebrows underlined his hat. He stood heavy, rotund, flesh caped by a black coat. Now and then, his pale pudgy hand flopped slowly up and down like a disturbed mollusk; he did not bother to smile. We stomped our feet in the chill; at his passage, when signaled, clapping as feebly as we thought we could get away with. For news and documentaries, they used a soundtrack with its own hurrah applause and shouts of long-live. His huge dark back took over the screen.

"Poetry endangers the established order in the soul."

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RICHARD FEIN Poet as Procrastinator I've always imagined the Rubicon being as deep as the Alps are high, so unlike Caesar I never crossed it. Like Cortes I'd burn all my ships, but unlike him I'd leave one rowboat rigged with sail. Unlike Hamlet I'd ruminate on "to thrust or not to thrust," even after the avenging Laertes scored his palpable hit. If my ship finally came in, I'd see Titanic painted on its hull. The other eleven jurors would twiddle their thumbs while I'd vote "guilty, no, wait—not guilty!" at least twelve times. The three curtains hiding the pot of gold, the Rolls Royce, and the can of tuna would crumble with age before I'd make my quiz-show choice. I'm best on the debating team, but the ruin of any emergency action committee. I strike when the iron cools to lukewarm, and am terrified of the prankster yelling boo. I can never be accused of being anti-climactic, for I never reach a climax. I'm the versifier of every if, and, or but. I bring a thousand schemes to the verge of execution, but like the condemned at the eleventh hour, I have to be dragged that last mile.

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