Lieutenant Zwigniewski was today arrested. <br />A foreign snitch had personally brought in the final straw. <br />The STASI interview which followed had attested, <br />that Zwig had played both sides too long, and someone saw <br />how he had spirited the funds across the border. <br />The Gnomes of Switzerland were still the ones to trust. <br />They had their banking system in Teutonic order <br />and don't reveal your money details even if they must. <br />A STASI officer now took him for a walk <br />into the bowels of the famous Spandau Prison. <br />He showed him gadgets just designed to make you sing and talk, <br />tell all you know and look at problems having just arisen. <br />And then they stopped outside the room marked ECT. <br />And very quickly in an overbearing, mellow tone <br />the officer invited him to have a peek, <br />and told him that the two of them were now at ease and all alone, <br />and, would he tell him all he knew about the bloody leak. <br /> <br />Well, Swig declined and dug his heels in for a fight. <br />He wouldn't break this easy, tell them all he knew. <br />And that he surely would get through this scary night. <br />He'd keep his secrets if they beat him black and blue. <br /> <br />So, he was strapped inside the chair for ECT. <br />The great persuader with the electrodes that wrapped <br />onto your skull, the lower legs and 'round the knee. <br />To make you talk you had to sit there and be zapped. <br />The game had started thought the spy and felt prepared. <br />He'd tough it out but meanwhile clever Captain STASI, <br />had bluffed and felt no need to have his captive spared, <br />he asked him: 'Tell me now, who is Count Esterhazy? ' <br /> <br />And then he cranked the handle to the very end. <br />Blue smoke now rising from the chair and from his hair. <br />The STASI man said 'Well goodbye, my stupid friend! ' <br />'We are the STASI, don't expect us to be fair.'<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bye-spy/
