Best Marx Poems

Karl Marx was a historian and scholar
  Groucho Marx whooped it up and hollered

    Both of them were starved for attention
    Neither of them honorable menschen *  



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  * 'Menschen' in Yiddish literally means...

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Don't scream about equality.
Life's unfair, that's reality.
Just do the very best you can
to be a truly worthy man.

Productive work and mind said Marx,
beget the humanizing sparks.
Self-worth and self-respect, said Rand,
can make for ouselves a better land!...

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THE MARX BROTHERS or The Unimportance of Being Earnest

I will praise the brothers Marx for their absurdity
As all ‘fools’ who mask high wisdom with the artless
May they lift our spirits faced with an adversity
The rejection of such gladness would be heartless

For when loosed of strictures...

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Do anarchists drink
Herbal tea because proper
Tea is theft?...

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Karl Marx house in Trier.

Know you where it is,
Abode of wisdom today we live,
Renown for industrial change?
Labour unite...still remember the say?

Man! It is a place to be,
Athenaeum of global change,
Rare to find in somewhere else,
X-rays of  wars on man and growth.

Herein philosophy lived,
On the...

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Born May 5, 1818, in Trier Germany 
     to Heinrich and Henrietta Marx,
sans the third of nine children 
     (and second oldest heir) 

     Karl Marx thinking begot incendiary sparks,
asper his two most...

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Jesus Christ and Karl Marx seek lost children in the City of Gold

In shackled shack with weight of broken bricks on tin roofed promises
she rest her head against the precious paraffin cooker empty and cold

Five children to feed no milk in once beautiful breasts life...

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Most people did not know that Arthur was your real name.
However, with your brothers, you achieved great fame.
Even though you could talk, you never said a word in your flicks.
Your fans loved all of your comical antics.
Harpo, how many times did you reach into your...

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I met Carl Marx in a bookstore
hanging around in the classics, waiting
some casual reader's mind to seduce  
his weaver, painter, plowhorse, produce
a strange dream of worker equality
the value of labor, everyman matters, 
An oxcart teeters, ideas splatter
into his subtile, beguiling reasoning
I read on, in...

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Karl Marx
created the communist manifesto
because looking at the capitalist world
the wealthy abused the poor

The wealthy enjoyed abundant lifestyles
well everybody else became slaves money
the wealthy getting wealthier 
well wages were eroded 

Marx was a trained economist
women died in the cotton factories of Manchester
by the time they...

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He was a herder of many sheep.
Often he whipped his tongue and spared the rod.
He lived for the Lord, for the harvest to reap.
With all his heart and soul, he loved his God.

What words can suffice to send off a soul?
A soul of a priest,...

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Whar art mine fervent zeal for Marx Brothers?

While figuratively trout fishing
for ideas to write about
analogous (hook, line and sinker)
idea wormed itself into mind with clout
moment of awareness arose
without shadow of doubt.

As a long haired pencil necked teenage geek
zany Harpo, Groucho, Chico ranked as idols
mine most...

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Classic Radio

I crave classic radio!
Boston Blackie and The Shadow;
Captain Midnight; Fibber Maggie and Molly;
Ace detectives fighting crime;
Or comedians making up limericks in rhyme.

Keep the TV for my husband to watch now
As I wear earphones, letting him wonder how
It is I’m laughing so much through every...

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("Utopia and Terror Merit Badge", 2010, original oil)

To This Day

Even now over 175 years after Marx
Set a tide of revolution in motion
There are still ever expanding and encroaching
Tendrils and tentacles of his influence
In every aspect of our lives.

At the root of all this hope and...

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dark is the morning dark is my phone with aliens rushing our border
i watch these vermin with contempt
i take my eyes off at 8am sharp
the commute is only an hour but a good first impression i will attempt

i bought the new phone today
it’s 0.5 centimeters...

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