Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Marxism For Dummies 4

The Corsican was never really Gallic.
The Austrian was not remotely Prussian.
Jugashvili (let's put this in italics)
could not be, in a month of Sundays, Russian.

The point of Communism is, it's global,
or else it's nothing. Swimming or it's dead,
like sharks, it fans out (kind of like Chernobyl).
Like peanut butter, it was made to spread.

This in-one-country nonsense once held sway
(Archangel, all the way to Kazakhstan),
but when he died, his system blew away,
as do all systems centred on one man.

Napoleon's snowball stopped with "Viet Cong".
The wonder is, it lasted quite so long.

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Darren White March 17, 2017 at 5:13 AM Just like Kardashian is not really..... Armenian ;) This is a worldview in a few poems that is actually quite enlightening. Thanks for this history lesson in full speed, I am not joking here. Michael Coy March 17, 2017 at 5:29 AM In "The Canterbury Tales", Chaucer says of the Clerk of Oxford, "gladly would he learn, and gladly teach". That's the ideal I aspire to.