Kai Michael Neumann Poet Ode

A Prophet With a Twist In His Holster

‘One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.’

	I did not know that my hero was a sex god as well

	But he wrote The Motorcycle Diary without any Zen

‘Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?’

	Never contemplate a revolution on a bad hair day
	
	So he sported an iconic bandana to dress for a war

‘Don't Shoot I'm Che I'm worth more to you alive than dead!’

	A bullet reaches as far as the range of a shell
	
	Revolution rises from residue to the living

‘Democracy represents the dictatorship of the exploiting classes’

	No opium for the masses and the jungle for a home

	Pistol in belt tongue in cheek and always controversial

‘Better to die standing than to live on your knees’

	He lived by the sword for the benefit of ploughshares

	A doctor turned renegade marxist Central American style

‘We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle’

	Justice does not appear without shadows from Nowhere

	He killed fewer people in battle than Trump or Obama


10th February 2020

All sentences in quotation marks by Ernesto Che Guevara

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Alexis Y. March 4, 2020 at 4:49 AM Hi Kai, Congratulations on your winning write . Have a wonderful day:-) Alexis

Sheri Fresonke Harper March 2, 2020 at 10:42 PM Congratulations Kai on your 7th place win in the Ode for a Leader or Politician Past or Present contest. Awesome inspiration to use quotes by Che Guevara, plus your offered good reasons for honoring him. Punctuation makes a difference, especially in how you read it, though. Thanks for entering, I enjoyed reading it.