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