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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

YEARS AGO AT THE TROLL FACTORY
(A FLASHBACK)

by Melissa Balmain



CNN video from Oct 26, 2016.


"What to know about the Russian troll factory
listed in Mueller’s indictment" 
Vox, February 16, 2018


Chug-chug, the googly-eye machine
goes round; a massive table brims
with squat injection-molded limbs
and fluffy topknots (orange, green)
as workers in white coveralls
toil on without a kasha break.
At last: "We've done it, no mistake!"
the comrades whoop. Then silence falls
as they behold their masterpiece—
that gruesome grin! That triple chin!
That overcooked-kolbasa skin!—
and plot its glorious release.


Melissa Balmain is the Editor of Light, a journal of comic verse. Her poetry collection Walking In on People (winner of the Able Muse Book Award), is often assumed by online shoppers to be some kind of porn.