Greetings from the Delegation of the CPSU

Mayakovski set his foot on the throat
of his own poetic diatribes;
such was the vehemence of that era.
Not so today--instead of
point-and-thrust polemics, instead
of blowgun slogans, precisely aimed,
our uprising star dissenters shoot
semiautomatically:
a scattershot here, a pop-pop there,
and they're done.
O for devotion to cause, and stamina!
O for thoughts whetted on bedrock ideals!
O for more backbones and fewer wishbones!
Let the revolution begin.