Nadya Tolokonnikova
by: Karol Olesiak , November 19, 2024
by: Karol Olesiak , November 19, 2024
father thinks pussy riot
music is gówno
punk rock didn’t speak
to him he didn’t fight
communism he benefited
preferring the orphanage
to family – Vysotsky playing
on tape deck of 82
pontiac lemans 5
o’clock shadow fred flintstone
I was the soul of a bad company
do not confuse him
with his characters
Baryshnikov dances to horses
with Gregory Peck rolling his r(s)
enunciating consonants
performing to the west
defectors have their own truth
monument likelier erected
for an actor who never knew
loneliness of prison walls
it’s some sort of crime
to not be a bob dylan fan
rear view mirror tree
poisoned after bob’s
big boy juvenile delinquent
boot camp 20 years later
he’s still telling me
I need to follow the rules
but I know what it’s like
to be poisoned father
Notes
On 17 August 2012, Nadya Tolokonnikova was arrested for ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’ after a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and was ultimately sentenced to two years of imprisonment.
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