Shostakovich: A Persona Poem
My music makes people smile
and helps them forget for a little while
that everything is not as good
as Stalin says it should.
One of my works was panned
and now all of my fans
are leaving me high and dry
now I fear I may die.
With this fifth work of mine
I will let my message shine
as clear as day to those who are
being threatened to be forced behind bars
or the artists' loved ones who been taken away
by the black car cars that could come any day.
Yet this will appease my greatest critics
even though it is deadpan, a shtick.
Round of applause!
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