Returning from USSR

Some came back with reports
Of dirt, stink, and poverty.

I gave them to read "A Room and a Half"--
About a poet's one room Leningrad apartment
Partitioned by a wall of books.

Others came back envious
Of the deep souls of the Slavic people.

I gave them to read "Shock Therapy"--
A medical miracle story of
Making corpses work in Kolyma.