A poem written by a russian imigrant now residing in New Jersey, Alexander Matlin
Good bye my dearest land of freedom!
Good bye America! At last
The shining star of Socialism
Is quickly rising over us.
From Florida to Oregon,
From San Diego to Detroit
We will build our very own,
The Soviet style, brave new world.
Good bye, the chains of Capitalism!
Without doubts and regrets
We’ll re-distribute country’s riches,
So everyone gets equal share.
And each, as country’s perfect cure,
Will be receiving equal pay.
There will be no rich and poor.
We’ll all be poor, but all the same.
We will achieve our final aim,
And our success is coming on.
Already standing at attention
Those brave soldiers of ACORN.
We’ve got our signal: On, to Hope!
The people shout: “Yes, we can!”
And humble HE, in simple coat,
Is leading us to hope and change.
He is leading! No time to waver:
HIS hand is firmly driving us.
We will extend our hand of friendship
To North Korea and Hamas.
Iran, Venezuela, Cuba —
They’ll be our friends from now on.
We will apologize profusely
And be allowed to move on.
We’ll feed them all, yes, everybody,
We won’t have enemies any more,
And everyone will be our buddy,
They all will love us evermore.
No turning back! Move forward only!
We won’t be charging for health care,
So our people will be healthy
And fit and happy everywhere.
We’ll fall in love with everybody,
The dearest HIM we will adore.
We will forbid both oil and coal –
No polluting any more!
We will achieve our noble goal
To kill Capitalism’s wrath.
We will stop evil global warming
That wicked business pushed on us.
And our children everywhere
Will sing together every day
To praise and thank our dear leader
For happy life, for joyful way.
We will discourage all religions,
Or maybe we’ll allow some.
Perhaps there will be one exception:
The peaceful practice of Islam.
The old Judeo-Christian values
Will no longer hold their sway.
And pretty soon we’ll put on trial
The evil folks of CIA.
With our victorious devotion
We’ll stop our enemies’ abuse.
We’ll crash all right-wing opponents
In Pentagon and at Fox News.
All the old quarrels of two parties
Will disappear, like a bad dream,
As all the members of both parties
Embrace forever Socialism.
With love and passion we’ll be happy,
We’ll spread our love without shame.
But those who will not be happy
Will have only themselves to blame.
The sky gets dark, the stars are shining,
The rivers covered up with ice.
And we are cold, confused, and frightened:
Is madness overcoming us?
We tried to run, to hide, but no:
Again the beast of Socialism’s near.
For us it’s all so well known.
Where do we now run from here?
