The 1 %

Give them their money,

bury them in it

and burn the pile.

All shall be ashes.

19.07.2015

Don't lament past atrocities

if you are unable to raise your voice

to condemn those done today.

Words without action,

the suffering people being

safely dead or saved,

are worthless.

Help those who can be saved

and save your own humanity.

18.07.2015

To an author complaining of poor children in the streets of Havana, Cuba

Complaining that revolution eradicated illiteracy

and brought great progress in medical care,

but left poverty -

I don't understand these who think that imperfect

result spoils the very attempt;

imperfect revolution is

no reason to oppose revolution,

a reason for a new stage 

or a new revolution altogether.

08.07.2015

Everybody makes history,

nobody is outside it,

no one is without influence

even when

they never realize it.

05.07.2015

What I learned from reading Samuel Beckett's poetry

Sometimes, to find your true voice,

you have to leave the language

you learned hand in hand with learning to walk.

Going through the collected poetry of Samuel Beckett,

the stuff in English is godawful third-rate mess,

and the French soars up from the dump

where the English nonsense fell,

up, up to the boundless sky.

05.07.2015

The duty of a historian

Rescue the forgotten dead from oblivion,

give them voice to speak

when their tongue has long decomposed;

unmount the powerful

who still, as revenants,

rule over the past in learned pages.

This is the duty of a historian:

To raise up those

who were kept low,

and to bring down those

who too long have obscured our view

when taken for giants.

05.07.2015

I lost my only reader

for carrying out a fool's request

that should have been denied

and stamped upon.

An apt punishment.

Actions have consequences,

as they should have.

05.07.2015

Either all lives matter

or no lives matter.

Which option

do you choose?

05.07.2015

To my three grand-uncles who died as infants

Every life is epic

- at least when it

comes to sorrow.

05.07.2015

The poor need no charity,

only a revolution

and the heads of the rich.

04.07.2015

One of those Saturday mornings

One of those Saturday mornings

when the distant rumble of car engines

becomes a lullaby

calling back to sleep.

The deep waters of sleep,

with faintly seen forms swimming

in the abyssal darkness,

swirling even in the coffee

that was to be the saviour

of wakefulness,

the liquidness of sleep

taking form in the mug.

04.07.2015

Injustice is a crop

that always leads

to a plentiful

harvest of hate.

02.07.2015