Dear Mr Putin
I hope you will forgive my naiveté
asking such an obvious and silly question
but do you care how you will be remembered
in times to come?
and if so will your fostering of Lukashenko
and his brutal regime
a remnant of the bad old days
more reminiscent of say a Mussolini
or the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha
hardly someone to hold up
to history's clearsighted scrutiny
will this add luster to your own
historic reputation or will it be
merely an ugly blot upon your name?