Sample Poetry and Poetry Readings - Che Guevara and the Fruit of the Marxist Revolution

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall." 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD2dFqo58K

--Che Guevara 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaIRYSTtYw

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Shake the tree as hard as need be, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVULQy5Xiq

To make the apple fall, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp4by4Od8UJ

Be it green, or red or yellow, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CSsEUis85

Be it ripe or still too green, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gV4l1JJOm

Succulent or rotten to the core, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85cWvsYCox

Shake the tree and make it fall. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYK79d1XlD

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If shaking the tree does not suffice, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYozWS2J26I

Plant a worm most carefully, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwr52KKnMZ

Let it eat the apple's heart, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlIO62qYwc

Break its spirit as it feeds, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiSBup8FyLz

Sap its strength most thoroughly, then just wait until it falls. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4owJ3UJ6Qw

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But if that tactic also fails, don't lose heart, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTAdOTMY14

Rip out the tree's protective bark, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZl6Eq7FhJp

Salt its roots, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwfHLn779PD

Strike it with chains, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvAZ8zex7Hl

Until no beauty remains, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZwJ8q5SB6f

And await the apple's fall. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeJotXWxYy

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And should the damned tree still stand, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbwnIOZlrT

And the apple cling to life, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP2aa0AgHvE

Take an axe, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8HALM5bs5

Sharpen it well, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLP7HDD4DE

Chop at the tree, bring it down, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKT5CqQB9Tr

Force the apple to the ground. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvLxNx8IAJf

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And should the apple still cling, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5YOqr038Wb

To a branch devoid of life, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2HIVZCeZo

Douse the shattered, useless tree 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRFNWzDwEn

With gasoline, light a match, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSadnEr9Kxh

And burn apple, branch and tree, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn91zks42XQ

All to gloriously fine ash. 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoHP4KAFNl

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Do this always in my name, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokuM0tr4Gh

For "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5C9NbD2xeu

Then you are a comrade of mine." 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhK8hENTr0

Wear my face with pride over your heart, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3LbPknKhvN

Shake raised fists in indignation, scatter the ashes to the wind, 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ70Gc3qkVl

What does it matter that ashes can't be eaten, so long as we win!126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8llYdEE6P8

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You can hear my reading of this poem at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MlOmVvH3n8QehG1dzH4Za?si=MWl_rE0YQLy3bQvS8dbtOA 126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4bfF3lIUvA

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Author's Note: I am no fan of Marxists or Marxism as no philosophy has wreaked as much misery as Marxism in every country it has touched in the 20th and 21st centuries, in my view. Fascism and Marxism are two sides of the same totalitarian coin, and while we rightfully condemn fascists, somehow too many folks in the media and entertainment worlds continue to have a soft spot for Marxism and Marxists old and new. Here, I've taken two quotes attributed to Che Guevara who has become something of a cult hero with his iconic good looks and short life spent fighting to spread Marxist/Communist causes in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America before being killed. His life has been romanticized in books and movies, including the popular Motorcycle Diaries, that focus on the young revolutionary in a positive light as a freedom fighter. The real revolutionary was quite different--a hardened, cold-blooded killer who executed countless "counterrevolutionaries" (read: non-Communist/Marxists) without mercy or regret. The end justified the means for him and for all Marxists--and their equally deranged polar opposites, fascists.126Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkU63wnelF

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