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A Metternichian View of Poetry

I’ve had enough of revolutionaries, thanks

Caviar commandos puttin’ on a show

Wrecking the streets with their slogans and tanks

Fattening on the food that others grow

 

The Comrades jet the world, flying first classes

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE to pay their tickets

Champagne for the Politburo, starvation for the masses

And the petite bourgeois, bent with rickets

 

Loot the museums, burn to ashes the books

Poetry is uppity and so is theatre

Artists and writers are capitalist crooks -

Constant turmoil is the true creator!

 

No

 

For in truth to each other we are most dutiful

When we work the good, the true, and the beautiful

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lawrence-hall
Published
Feb 6
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Lawrence Hall

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I disapprove of exposition but I must add that this rebuke extends to the right-istas

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