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              The Great Big Russian Doomsday Submarine

As with Leviathan or Moby ****
Or Captain Nemo’s Nautilus, perhaps
The Belgorod haunts the darkness of the seas
And it haunts our minds, our darkest fears

We scorn shabby Russian gimcrackery
The wreckage of tanks, the ashes of men
Whose feeble aircraft flame down from the sky
But this thing – it needs to work only once

What if it’s real, so very real
That we don’t finish…