Shostakovich

Shostakovich

Twice denunciated :   regularly mailing a card
To test the postal service
—A reminder to write music for the masses ;
Measured, the response to just criticism .
Not an opium addict :
No belief in God, and very sorry about it
—Note the quoting of self .

A tsar falls from heaven hanging
O’er the May Day march toward socialism
| Steps out of Chaos | .
Metronomic, the tics to the hammering tocks
Of clocks interlocking, sickles cycle
In the fields of crystal harmony—
Fist–pumps of the workers .

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