Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Marxism For Dummies 1

"Two kinds of people in this world, my friend," 
as that great thinker, Tuco, used to say: 
the road to Wigan Pier has reached its end? 
We're staying on the road to Mandalay? 

The first type jabber of equality 
but (humans being humans) there's a throne, 
and someone grabs it. "Hence, so shall it be," 
he says. And as So-Shall-ists are they known. 

The other lot have hides as tough as shellfish. 
They have a ton of chutzpah, but no shame. 
To cap it all, they're really rather selfish, 
and that's why Cap-It-All-ists is their name. 

So, which are you? A nervous-nerd-Ralph-Nader? 
Or do you kiss the coccyx of Darth Vader?

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Darren White March 17, 2017 at 12:40 AM Orwell, Kipling, Nader and Vader I can place, but Tuco??? I don't need to be Nader, I love Darth Vader, but kiss his Coccyx? Don't think so, haha. But yeah, I get the message. And I LOVE that wordplay with socialists and capitalists, that is so clever and fun :D Darren White March 17, 2017 at 5:00 AM Aha! That I would have never guessed, because I've never seen the film, but now I of course HAVE to. I'll save it for hospital, when I don't have anything better to do anyway :) Michael Coy March 17, 2017 at 4:03 AM Thank you, I'm always very grateful for your acute and lively comments. Tuco is the comical Mexican in "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly".