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RELICS

Mary Kolesnikova

Communist statues dotting the Russian countryside. As
progress thaws slower than the tundra, these relics are
a negligible point of interest. The slogans underneath
the busts of Lenin remain unread, either because the
local people have heard it all before or they know that
someday it will happen again. There are plaques in bas
relief, and the dead body of the man who made it
possible, lying for tourists to see. Taken in for touch
ups every once in a while, fluids changed, lint taken
off. This is the country of my forefathers, and here
they have no appetite for closure. I suppose that is
all the closure I will ever get.

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