09-15-2023, 09:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2023, 09:59 PM by TranquillityBase.)
I was converted to Marxism
by the America’s richest socialist,
I’d always been a fellow-traveler
but in 1981 I was reborn.
I remember buying a boxed set:
Selected Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin
Stalin & Mao, sweet little pale yellow
paperbacks printed in China, sewn bindings
with engraved frontispiece portraits
in every volume, and I remember how
the check out guy looked at me,
like he knew I’d just come out
of a showing of Reds and I was
a little embarrassed because it was true.
There was a t-shirt I always wanted
to be brave enough to wear
that I found on an Anarchist website
from somewhere in the UK,
a black and white graveyard with
hundreds of crosses disappearing
into the distance and the slogan
“We have found new homes for the rich”.
Never got the t-shirt but still trying
to read Das Kapital and write an epic
poem inspired by Karl’s words.
I’ve written three cantos but I suspect
that’s as far as I’ll get because I can’t
quite understand commodity fetishism,
but I also suspect I may be guilty of that.
t-shirt
by the America’s richest socialist,
I’d always been a fellow-traveler
but in 1981 I was reborn.
I remember buying a boxed set:
Selected Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin
Stalin & Mao, sweet little pale yellow
paperbacks printed in China, sewn bindings
with engraved frontispiece portraits
in every volume, and I remember how
the check out guy looked at me,
like he knew I’d just come out
of a showing of Reds and I was
a little embarrassed because it was true.
There was a t-shirt I always wanted
to be brave enough to wear
that I found on an Anarchist website
from somewhere in the UK,
a black and white graveyard with
hundreds of crosses disappearing
into the distance and the slogan
“We have found new homes for the rich”.
Never got the t-shirt but still trying
to read Das Kapital and write an epic
poem inspired by Karl’s words.
I’ve written three cantos but I suspect
that’s as far as I’ll get because I can’t
quite understand commodity fetishism,
but I also suspect I may be guilty of that.
t-shirt