Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Marxism For Dummies 11

The key, for me, must be those onion domes.
Concentric skins, like Russian dolls, contain:
they don’t obtrude.  Defensive rings explain
the posture.  Let’s not bother Sherlock Holmes
with this one.  Save Bill Bailey’s fine-tooth combs.
They feared for Minsk, like others fear for Maine.
The Wall was there, so brains would cease to drain
towards those tail-fins, all decked out in chrome.

They tried to build a comely comfort-zone,
a space to place a hundred home-grown flowers.
We couldn’t wait to see it overthrown
(Archangel, Wayne, Polaris, Gary Powers,
Capone, Stallone, Cohns, drones and Sharon Stone).
They wanted only to be left alone.

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Darren White March 19, 2017 at 12:01 AM Walls are everywhere, they grow like huge intrusive onion domes wherever needed. Do they work? Are they humane? Nice list of 'walls' you'd like to see overthrown. But what does Sharon Stone do in there? Or is she there for rhyming purposes only? Can I move Cohns to the top of the list, thankyouverymuch? Michael Coy March 19, 2017 at 4:19 AM Shjaron represents brainless, facile (and ubiquitous) American "culture".