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TOMORROW HE MAY BE


I.B. Rad




After Stalin’s cultural hack, Zhdanov,
had treated that major Soviet poet, Akhmatova,
to yet another round of denunciation,*
at a select soiree, Akhmatova turned to a tested friend
and through tears brought by too much laughter, whispered,
“Today, Zhdanov is my oppressor,
tomorrow... tomorrow he may be
a footnote to my poetry.”

1. In September 1946 both Akhmatova and Zoshchenko were expelled from the
Union of Writers. In October 1988, under “glasnost”, the expulsion was
rescinded.

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