Marxism For Dummies 7

B52s above the Aleutians?
It never was a Red Dread global mission.
Fidel was just Galician patrician,
and Ho and Mao were scholarly Confucians.

They wore those uniforms like horsehair vests,
to carve from abject nothingness an entity,
a national and regional identity,
ingredients which only coalesced

when nascent nations donned that soviet skin,
abhorrent to the blinkered Baywatch mind:
unowned, untethered, boundless, non-aligned –
but with Kalashnikovs airlifted in.

As Mary Jane moved in on moonshine stills,
the five-year-olds rehearsed their fallout drills.
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March 18, 2017 at 6:54 AM
Ho and Mao were mostly confused. I would be too, confronted with Baywatch. I know what moonshine is, Mary Jane however? But yes, aren't they all 5 year old? All of them? And isn't that the most terrifying of all?
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March 18, 2017 at 7:03 AM
Really? Mary Jane? Hahahaha, how silly :D
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March 18, 2017 at 7:00 AM
LOL Trump is a 5-year-old. "Mary Jane" is how people referred to marijuana, clandestinely, in the 1960s (which is when it replaced alcohol as the favourite illicit intoxicant).
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