Elimination Poem by Akhtar Jawad

I was annoyed of rats and reptiles,
So what if a kitten is dead on the tiles,
I don't kill anyone, I just eliminate,
The kitten was only a victim of his fate,
Why he chased the foolish ugly rat?
I'm a lover of beauty, see my hat!
It's a symbol of power and the might,
Don't you know it's might that's right?
No mosquitoes and the cockroaches,
Can't tolerate if dirt approaches,
My house should remain neat and clean,
I'm above the law as I am a dean,
To keep my kitchen hygienic and neat,
For the rats, scattered poisonous meat,
Trespassed the door, my unlucky kitten,
Sorry to see dead in neat clean kitchen.


(In February 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a research paper by Georgian historian Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev published in the weekly tabloid Argumenti i Fakti estimated that the death toll directly attributable to Stalin's rule amounted to some 20 million lives ……With thanks to International Business Times)