In ’77, détente
was gone
Soviet SS-20s
pointing west
Brezhnev sees
Afghanistan like a Khan
Carter says, the
US won’t be your guest.
Then came Reagan
and shit hitting the fan
Pynchon and
DeLillo’s visions came true
KGB, RYAN, were
Andropov’s plan.
SDI then
Chernenko’s quick death knew
Change was
coming, yet missiles still pointing.
In ’85,
Gorbachev smiled
Perestroika and
Glasnost anointing
Changes that
would leave Lenin defiled.
And so, the USSR
then failed
And all the cold warriors wept, and wailed.
