04-22-2018, 11:04 PM
Limerick Historique
There once was a writer named Conquest
who wrote about men Stalin did in
which was true but inspired a hate-fest
from Reds underjoyed they could not win
despite all they could manage
by treason and lying
they did little damage
and lumpen kept buying
America’s message
of work satisfying
men’s needs without presage
of liberty dying.
Which is why, at the Soviets’ inquest
one smiling deponent was Conquest.
(In addition to being a leading historian of Communism, Robert Conquest (d.2015) was a noted limericist - his most famous, perhaps, being
There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.
which combined his interests. Traditional typography in the original.)
There once was a writer named Conquest
who wrote about men Stalin did in
which was true but inspired a hate-fest
from Reds underjoyed they could not win
despite all they could manage
by treason and lying
they did little damage
and lumpen kept buying
America’s message
of work satisfying
men’s needs without presage
of liberty dying.
Which is why, at the Soviets’ inquest
one smiling deponent was Conquest.
(In addition to being a leading historian of Communism, Robert Conquest (d.2015) was a noted limericist - his most famous, perhaps, being
There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.
which combined his interests. Traditional typography in the original.)
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