3426. ALL THE WONDERS OF YEKATERINBERG

ALL THE WONDERS OF

YEKATERINBERG

Mechanics. Welders. Operators of

the most heavy machinery. We have

come together to visit the Urals, and

I say hello. From one thousand miles

away, is Moscow watching? I will train

my whistle on elixir and magic, those

two, trained dancing-bears we all delight

in. Watch the dance and the jump. Learn.

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Let us mingle the new tongue with the old.

You may speak of Revolution while others

will scold. In fact, so long distant now, the

others (all behind you) have entered the past.

All the forgotten members of Death, and all

its squads, are now gone. Sverdlovsk, I call

upon you not to run, in fact, Sverdlovsk polish

the gun  -  clean well the barrel and mark the

rounds, buff up the bullets and pick the one.

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Beauty there is, in silver-singing rivers, high hills

and peaks, mountains of old and on-high. None of

this will go away, even as we may die. I dreamed

I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me.

Now we too must fight and try, or die.