GOGOL

Who would have believed
in the twenty first century,
you Gogol, of all people
called a dwarf at school
and worse,
who wrote about a nose
and overcoat
would now be the most cool,
you who wrote a literary
"Diary of a Madman,"
cursed and burnt
his manuscript
licked with thoughts of Hell
and reactionary tool
is now a comic rebel
once laughed at
as a holy fool
now with elan and publicity
you,yes you,Gogol ,rule.