Santino in America

Poetry Czar

LEADERONIA- In a rare act of self criticism the Great Leader has
disbanded the History day program, and has directed his office to
turn the Historic Daily entry in Weekly. This is due, said the GL, to
the boring nature of some events, banning all boring things.

To much joy for the people of Leaderonia the Office of Culture
and Progress is delighted to announce the appointment of
Commarade KJK to the highest poetry post, and his return to
his natural land of North Leaderonia.
Commarade KJK is a prolific scholar and poetry passionate that
in order to honor his appointment and announcement has picked
a classic of all classic from Mayakovsky repertoire.
The Office of Culture and Progress invite Leaderonians to read below.

Rally the ranks into a march!
Now's no time to quibble or browse there.
Silence, you orators!
You
have the floor,
Comrade Mauser.
Enough of living by laws
that Adam and Eve have left.
Hustle old history's horse.
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!

Ahoy, blue jackets!
Cross the sky-moats!
Beyond the oceans!
Unless
your battleships on the roads
blunted their keels' fighting keenness!
Baring the teeth of his crown,
let
the lion of Britain whine, gale-heft.
The commune can never go down.
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!

There-
beyond sorrow's peaks,
sunlit lands uncharted.
Against hunger,
against plague's dark seas,
the marching of millions has started!
Let armies of hirelings ambush us,
streaming cold steel through every rift, -
L'Entente can't conquer the Russians,
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!

Does the eye of the eagle fade?
Shall we stare back to the old?
Proletarian fingers
the throat of the world
still tighter hold!
Chests out!
Shoulders straight!
Stick to the sky red flags adrift!
Whose marching there with the right?!!
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!

(V.V. Mayakovsky)

Posted by Santino at January 6, 2005 05:15 AM