Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Marxism For Dummies 5

Complicity is easy for the Right,
one single flag to which they all adhere –
“someone might steal my loot”.  This primal fear
prompts pistols under pillows, sleepless nights
and riot cops.  Who needs a Stagyrite?
But Lefties hold their differences dear.
Each Keeper of the Flame is more sincere
than Cash-Is-Trash-ists, Ogden Nash-ists, quite
apart from Crypto-Fascists, Widow’s Mite
Apologists, Red Guards, or those who steer
by Stalin’s light (Stakhanovites).  It’s clear:
you’d never have a play without a wright,
and so each faction finds its Miller Lite:
Kropotkin, Castro, Kopp – who’s cool this year?

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Darren White March 17, 2017 at 5:10 AM AMAGAD, this one is awesome! Make it a rap, Poetry Slam, whatnot! It has a breathless quality with a needy undertone in it... Marxism for dummies, capitalism for dummies, socialism for dummies..... This is more: ANY TOO FUNDAMENTALIST System For Dummies. Michael Coy March 17, 2017 at 5:30 AM LOL You're very kind. I had fun with it.