> In that time [Bob Kaufman] composed the poem "The American Sun".
> contains the following lines:
>
> ". . .HEAVEN UNDRESSES
> THE BODY OF LENIN IN THE TOMB AND
> DISCOVERS THE LEGS HAVE TURNED BLACK,
> RUSSIAN COMMUNISM IS REFUSED THE
> SACRAMENT BY HEAVEN. . ."
>
> and:
>
> " . . .THE TOMB OF
> LENIN HAS BEEN DESTROYED,
> THE BODY OF LENIN IS BEING CARRIED THROUGH
> THE CITY . . ."
Um, I think he was talking about the way the Soviet Union was at the
time he was writing, not the way he thought it was going to be in the
future.
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