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." 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcv3W6xbMK

--Che Guevara 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkbsBGtquNX

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Shake the tree as hard as need be, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49M5PJt0sm

To make the apple fall, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVEMQEdtPY

Be it green, or red or yellow, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxwIfSMRc5q

Be it ripe or still too green, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFUo5JFl9m

Succulent or rotten to the core, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjWzGtLFBz

Shake the tree and make it fall. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2I05MOD0T

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If shaking the tree does not suffice, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Ts9Ct2mik

Plant a worm most carefully, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnDkN1plIL9

Let it eat the apple's heart, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujANkCds1n

Break its spirit as it feeds, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWlklp1qfA

Sap its strength most thoroughly, then just wait until it falls. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwZqERlf9j

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But if that tactic also fails, don't lose heart, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOayHqs7b8

Rip out the tree's protective bark, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6LErK88Hq

Salt its roots, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJlFbThbCV

Strike it with chains, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9evPbgJ1Sl

Until no beauty remains, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTjxvpe764

And await the apple's fall. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIwZdF8naeO

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And should the damned tree still stand, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2sXVDkCLh

And the apple cling to life, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWnt2EEK2Wx

Take an axe, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3VUHCo5SO

Sharpen it well, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCuZRPKW0j

Chop at the tree, bring it down, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhu8mxlyTeO

Force the apple to the ground. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCvFUww7Im

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And should the apple still cling, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsvYP0AmBHv

To a branch devoid of life, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiUCE7DI7V

Douse the shattered, useless tree 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCDm01I5gfE

With gasoline, light a match, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3HwCs2ucu

And burn apple, branch and tree, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4rUYnkekb

All to gloriously fine ash. 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6uYghaXQq

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Do this always in my name, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVozPMU0tr6

For "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp5xwxdNpyJ

Then you are a comrade of mine." 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMgn7vLrF8

Wear my face with pride over your heart, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN6QxLKThkP

Shake raised fists in indignation, scatter the ashes to the wind, 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihdzRolphh

What does it matter that ashes can't be eaten, so long as we win!133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm96ulqRU35

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You can hear my reading of this poem at https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MlOmVvH3n8QehG1dzH4Za?si=MWl_rE0YQLy3bQvS8dbtOA 133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0m6vTnIlPO

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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.133Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxDGP9fI0pU

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