False Report

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS (UKRAINE)

False Report

 

In Moscow you can get prison time

For using the word war

In Russia you can lose your freedom

For asking why and what for?

In Moscow there are the ghosts

Of journalists and politicians

To remind us the cost of free speech

 

So tell me: if someone in Moscow

Or Vladivostok calls to ask

Your opinion of the president

What kind of fool would you have to be

To tell them the truth?

 

So when someone reports that 83 percent

Of the Russian people

Still support their president

The miracle is that seventeen percent

Refused to play the game

 

Soon the jails and prisons of Russia

Will be filled with dissidents

Draft resisters and soldiers

Who refused to fight

And all the world must rally

To their support