Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Joining the Class Struggle - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Joining the Class Struggle

 

“Yuri, what splendid words!”

 

-Anna in Doctor Zhivago

 

Lift high the red banner, comrades and comradettes!                  

Lift high the made-in-China bullhorns against the rich

Make crudely misspelt signs and block the streets

(How dare the workers work while we’re yelling at them)

 

Pull down the statue of St. Joan of Arc!

Because she was, like, you know, a Confederate general

And smash the windows of the corporate coffee shops

(Make mine a decolonized double decaf)

 

Liberate the people’s goods! To arms! To arms!

(But who will stay behind to work the farms?)

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