May 9, 2009
BOOMB! BANG! KABOOM (bigger boom)! RATAAATAT, RATTAATAT! KAPOW!!!!
Weer’ just watching TV on Victory Day; celebrating the end of the Great Patriotic War. That’s commonly known as the WW2 for the rest of the world.
All you hear on TV are bombs, machine guns, hand grenades, rifles, tanks, planes, ships, machines;
and people screaming, people crying, people yelling, people threatening, people whispering;
and opera singers, folk singers, rock stars all singing beautiful old war songs;
and champagne corks popping, people in diamonds clapping their hands, politicians talking, oligarchs looking on smilingly ;
and people crying, wiping tears, laughing, hoping, making love, having babies, dying.
Out the window all you see are cars racing down the walkway;
and young girls in skin tight jeans hurrying somewhere in high heels going “click- clack-click-clack”;
and couples quickly pushing their baby crib heading home out of the sudden rain;
and teenagers running, laughing, holding hands without any thought of raincoats ;
and little green leaves finally showing themselves under a cold rainy gray overcast sky.
We toasted a few times with vodka,
Vodka is for remembering the dead;
We toasted a few times with wine,
Wine is for remembering you’re alive;
We’ve settled into the TV programs,
TV is for passively passing time;
We’re glad that we’re alive!
You can’t count your blessings too often.
Toasting you,
Potrick & Irina
PS:
You would think they would learn. Karl II (Swedish) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1700 failed; Napoleon (French) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1812 failed; Hitler (German) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1941 failed.
The only way to conquer Russia is simple. You get 10,000 Mongolian Tartars, 40,000 horses and start the run from the east in early Spring.
BOOMB! BANG! KABOOM (bigger boom)! RATAAATAT, RATTAATAT! KAPOW!!!!
Weer’ just watching TV on Victory Day; celebrating the end of the Great Patriotic War. That’s commonly known as the WW2 for the rest of the world.
All you hear on TV are bombs, machine guns, hand grenades, rifles, tanks, planes, ships, machines;
and people screaming, people crying, people yelling, people threatening, people whispering;
and opera singers, folk singers, rock stars all singing beautiful old war songs;
and champagne corks popping, people in diamonds clapping their hands, politicians talking, oligarchs looking on smilingly ;
and people crying, wiping tears, laughing, hoping, making love, having babies, dying.
Out the window all you see are cars racing down the walkway;
and young girls in skin tight jeans hurrying somewhere in high heels going “click- clack-click-clack”;
and couples quickly pushing their baby crib heading home out of the sudden rain;
and teenagers running, laughing, holding hands without any thought of raincoats ;
and little green leaves finally showing themselves under a cold rainy gray overcast sky.
We toasted a few times with vodka,
Vodka is for remembering the dead;
We toasted a few times with wine,
Wine is for remembering you’re alive;
We’ve settled into the TV programs,
TV is for passively passing time;
We’re glad that we’re alive!
You can’t count your blessings too often.
Toasting you,
Potrick & Irina
PS:
You would think they would learn. Karl II (Swedish) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1700 failed; Napoleon (French) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1812 failed; Hitler (German) with Europe’s biggest and best army in 1941 failed.
The only way to conquer Russia is simple. You get 10,000 Mongolian Tartars, 40,000 horses and start the run from the east in early Spring.
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