The Daily Worker

BUSINESS AS USUAL

If you want to see Across the street
BUSINESS AS USUAL Is the Gosmoloko
Today in Moscow (City Milk Company)
Take a look at our street! Which has hundreds
That fine corner building Of clean little shops
Is the Arbat branch All over the city,
Of the Moscow City Bank, And the Co-operative Food Store
Municipally owned, And the Tea and Coffee House
Where workers put their savings Of the Central Tea Management
Or pay their RENT bills And Crimean wines
To the city. Of the Government Wine Trust
On the other corner And a neat little restaurant
Those beautiful fabrics Run by the GOSPIET
In the plate-glass windows A newly formed company
Are Chain Store Number 20 Whose shares are owned
Of All Russian Textiles By the Health Department
Under the Supreme Council And the State Supply Department
Of Government Industries. And the Restaurant Workers' Union
Now here Are little workshops
Next door "ARTEL 59"
Where the SOAPS and salves Of Moscow Boot Workers,
And surgical instruments And "Artel 156"
Shine behind polished glass Of Moscow Clothing Workers,
Is GOSMEDTORG And a store of electrical goods
(State Medical Trade) Run by an "artel"
Of the Health Department. Of electrical workers.
Where working men's wives Where you deal directly
Come out with KEROSENE With trade unionists
Is Moscow Station 26 Co-operatively organized,
Of the Government Oil Syndicate. Sharing work and profits.
Those gay wallpapers Oh, yes
With little colored dogs There were half a dozen stores
Designed for a nursery Of regular private trade
Are a shop of Mospoligraph The municipal Wall Paper!