Galina Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Galina

Of Gala, what to say?
Moldova, what to say?
A teacher, what to say?

Whiter than white, Russian
-many Jews among them
-supreme, thanks to race
-mastering locals, serfs
-Kremlin sent agents

Tsars and Soviets! ! !

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Soviets were made of
-this Soyuz, that Soyuz
-each state was Soyuz
-among them Moldova
-there, was born Galina
-high in rank; a Jew, white

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Corrupt were directors
-not as much, the agents
-nationalists were hidden
-corruption was mushroom
-grew and spread everywhere

Kremlin decided:
- "Amusement is needed! "

So, opened wings for wars,
-led killings and revolts
-in every continent
-USA competent
-partner in the game

Innocents, left and right
-the peoples got involved
-either side was victim
-of the ruling corrupt

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Some burdened; dug diamonds
-mostly sold by daughter
- (Brezhnev's)

Same were gold and silver
-minerals of lands, minds
-literature among them
-Zhivago, Sakharov

Flattened to ground
-was the land of Afghans
-trees burned to mountains

See Congo, Cuba
-Tito, Che and Nasser,
-proud men of courage
-outside the circles made
-as limits, Black-White
- "With us or against us! "

Finally, Zorro came
-his name was Gorbachev
-too naïve, innocent, unaware
-that beads of rosary, united
-were by force connected

A needle in balloon
-entrapped in it gas
-excessively in-mass
-end in a wilderness
-causes burst…
-bringing the damage
-collusion, blood, death
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Galina says of what
-she, her team, have observed
-the fall of Soviets
-and lot of bloodsheds
-and Russians exported as agents
-facing the aggressive curse and hate

Galina is direct:
- "We felt how were betrayed
-by the same wrong doers and bastards
-who sat in Kremlin holding reins
-they left us slandered
-there, to face the people
-who were filled with hatred
-with no hope to return
-to Russia as home-base…
-we had to find place
-to call it home, settle…
-so, fled…"

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We met in Mississauga
-speaking for long time…
-she too turned into a
-guinea pig for research
- (my very old sickness!)

Gala told so:
- "I left with single purse
-and hand of my daughter
-and clothes on our backs…"

They became refugees
-like Houtous and many
-who fell for treaties
-made with the English
Having been in Russia
-having seen quite lot
-travelled in some of
-what were called "The Soyuz"
-Dushanbe and Tashkent
-Bella Rus and Ukraine,
-I felt her with tears
-so, hugged her to comfort
-each of us a furnace…

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I had seen on corner
-of highway four-o-three
-and Centre
-the man who stands there
-every day, too often
-in the cold of winter
-to the heat of summer

I saw him when going
-to do my editing

It was dark and nippy
-passed by him when changing
-shirts, jackets and his pants
-he took, shook to clean
-from the insects that
-possibly rested there
-inside his plastic
- (single bag as only belonging!)

God, please, if you are
-if have been, if exist
-take this life; remaining
-let me go…I can't see
-injustice…brutality

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