Lilya and Mayakovsky

a futurist collection

similar to Elvis and his shocking thrust,

but drawn like a dagger

with typical Russian swagger

across the entire page,

magically appeared!

but it wasn't yet all the rage,

although there was certainly hope

for this new literary dance

called something like...A Cloud in Pants!

penned in verse

across the sprawling universe

with buckets of poetic awe

at what he saw.

then after traveling miles and miles,

weathering the Moscow Trials

and the Great Terror;

what was the fatal error

that left Lilya Brik homeless?

she, of course, the beautiful seducer:

a lover of talented men, revolutionary music, and language skills,

who climbed seductively over and under artistic hills

but committed suicide

with her mouthful of sleeping pills

at the age of 86,

so no more Cheka tricks!