One of my smartest friends said:
For years I thought
Trotsky and Tolstoy
Were the same person.
Why did Stalin want to kill Tolstoy?
Did Stalin read War and Peace,
And finally yell, “What the heck?”
Then condemn the author to death?
Until the day my friend saw the date of the novel:
Eighteen sixty-nine.
That made no sense with Stalin.
A flash of insight.
The world suddenly made more sense.
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