What does it mean to be Russian?

 

Who has not seen Fiddler on the Roof?

Or Anna Karina?

Or a few of those Connery Russian films?

What does it mean to be Russian?

Who has ever really lived in Russia?

But does that qualify?

The world news has become a burden

To watch they think they know 

What they are covering 

And yet, not too long ago

We were enemies with all things Soviet

Or just before that Best Friends 

With those guys who defeated the Nazis.

Where does on draw the line?

It is like asking someone who has been to Paris

If they are French now.

Even Lucette who came to us forty years ago 

Still speaks with a German accent

Her story is that she was in France not Germany

Got work at the American base

Got pregnant and than married one of the guys

Every time her paperwork comes up

She has to hire a liar named Gabriel.

To sit there with the paperwork

Altering the facts to fit the one her husband

Was forced into after  he must have gone to her home town

As was customary at the time to see where they came from

Before bringing them to the United States

Anyway, Lucette always comes across as sweet 
Unlike Jacoba who is an obvious liar

No one believes her that she is Dutch and not German

But with a retarded son and a American husband

People just stopped talking about it or to her.

As for the Russian Jewish guy 

Running a nation as a puppet

Whose people are now coming out

And explaining how they really feel

Lifting their flag over someone's elses 

Territory just because they feel they can

Crimea was never theirs 

Even when they left their mother country

And ventured out on their own 

But they want land and not people

Killing off those in the way of their 

What, world power?

They were the ones who started

This battle with their rhetoric

Towards Crimea belonging to hem

Now they have proved that is their goal

Who cares about Donetsk

Certainly not the world court

Who used to be good about arbitration?

But everyone today is on one side

The one that does not allow

For the big bad enemy

As they have now painted 

The man who brought Russia

Into the modern world 

After Gorbachev began the journey

Even Medvedev only made it obvious

That the world was not ready 

Full a fully modern Russia 

But wanted it to sustain their belief

In an old fashion monarchy 

That had little influence upon the world

When in fact they had a lot more influence

Than historians credit them 

And they were also more advanced than Germany

Or even Victorian England

Then we have the other ones 

Who quietly go about their business?

The famous explorer Konyukhov 

Is getting ready for another trip

Another balloon trip 

To break another world record.

Bless him for his efforts

He has left all the others behind

Foster died suddenly from an imploded engine

While Branson looked terrified in his space Odessey

He does well enough for a Brit but the Russian

Has been running circles around everyone else

He is both Russian Orthodox, a priest on his off days

And a former Russian Naval Marine

He did his time at war and now spends

His retirement learning about the world

And bringing it back to those of us on earth.

Where else would we go for such knowledge?

Not everyone can be a flower seller 

Living off of nickels

Nor a fancy sexy prostitute

As many attempted to create 

An environment of those who were Russian girls

So much of Las Vegas invaded the imagery

Of the films such as a the ones that 

Viggo Mortenson was making

Compared to the more somber ones

That Sean Connery was making

With Russia House of those who wanted to escape

But to where?

Most girls who make it to America

Become prostitutes or live as homeless women

Without a husband they have no options

Unless they have a talent or skill

College is fine but goes nowhere

Without someone giving them a chance

And al of those spots are taken

By those whose don't have the skills

Just as in France where once

They were considered so lazy

The French that the country

Almost shut down due to lack

Of filling the employment 

All those empty offices 

When the Americans finally went home

No one wanted to work!

At least that was the image we were given

They promised that those who went to college

Would be provided jobs 

Then they had all of those filled

The student protested that they had no jobs

Now they don't want to work a few more years

What is the difference of two years?

The economy cant handle all of them going 

On their form of social security at the same time

We are told we have already run dry 

All those who paid in have nothing to get back

Those who are receiving it are getting it from 

The grandchildren generation

And in America they started encouraging 

The ones who were 62 to go on SS

Instead of waiting until they are 65

This is because it is less money for them

And more money for the government

To save for the future generations

That is if there is not another money demand

From an unnamed person 

Whose people have no way of working 

Dragging the rest of us down

Meanwhile King Charles III

Has had to cancel his first state trip

Due to the riots going on in France

Who wants to set fire to their city hall?

Who is going to pay for it to rebuilt?

Meanwhile Biden went to Canada

Some see it as a British province

And others as a French colony

After having the Australian and British Prime Ministers

Came to visit 

He has been busy with the lifting

Of the Coronavirus 

Where will we be next year?

No one expected the Pandemic

No one knows where these people come from 

Who show up at the border 

But Jimmy showed up all the time

He got someone to let him in

And he not only stayed for fifty years

But has never done any real work

Except extortion and blackmailing

But everyone is proud of him

Everyone should be frightened of him

He bragged about a lot of crimes

He even said he Shanghaied Hoffa

Imagine a big criminal boss like Jimmy Hoffa

Disappear and a young kid shipped him off 

To China! Where he would not speak the language

And could not come back without help

From his own people who probably 

Had already replaced him instead of seeking his location.

How long do you think he would survive?

A long time if he had a stolen wallet

Or hooked up with an equal criminal. 

In China, getting accustomed to the lavish lifestyle

Until his demise we he would end up in one of those

Temporary things called storage jars

China has little room for burials

Most are ether cremated or put in jars.

What does it mean to be any nationality

Some are born and never fit in

Others move and become closer than anything

It is a question of travelers. 

And immigrants who come and go.

While Journalist often take on the persona

Of the country of which they cover. 

As if they are one of the people themselves.

What is America fighting, past demons? 

Or future imbeciles.

Imagine if Jimmy got hold of those reigns.

We would all quickly jump off .....