Sunday, July 28, 2013

MENDING THE HOLES OF MY RAINCOAT







MENDING THE HOLES OF MY RAINCOAT
(A Marxist renku by Dimitar Anakiev and Zinovy Vayman)



1.
Mending the holes
of my raincoat–that's the way
I became a Marxist*
. . Dimitar Anakiev

*Trotsky: "Anarchism is like a raincoat full of holes–it only works when it is not needed"

2.
American unemployed
dressed in the utmost finery
hence, my green card!!!
. . Zinovy Vayman

3.
Palestinian
children cry for fineries
of America
. . Dimitar Anakiev

4.
Israeli black shirts:
"Beat up patriot Jews
to scare Arabs!"
. . Zinovy Vayman

5.
Patriotism?
What a nice tool
of imperialism.
. . Dimitar Anakiev

6.
my green years
in the USSR I learned to revere
the underdog patriots
. . Zinovy Vayman

7.
Deformed worker's
state in my memories flies
and a butterfly dead
. . Dimitar Anakiev

8-
Communist League members!
NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE
was our motto
. . Zinovy Vayman

9.
Chauvinism falsely
presented as a nationalism:
dirty snow has fallen
. . Dimitar Anakiev

10.
Guess why
the plethora of languages
a loess monkey !
. . Zinovy Vayman

11.
"theory becomes
a material force when it
grips the masses"*
. . Dimitar Anakiev

*Marx: Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

12.
Guess why
my poor Czehoslovakia
is no more
. . Zinovy Vayman

13.
six republics,
sky and Adriatic sea
sold for money
. . Dimitar Anakiev

14.
2013, july
slovakia....slovenia...
still some confusion
. .Zinovy Vayman

15.
The reality strives
towards thought and though,
tends to realize itself.
. . Dimitar Anakiev

16.
love triangle!
a half Jewish Frida, Trotsky
Rivera
. . Zinovy Vayman

17.
Transitional program
step by step walking backwards
mist of spring
. . Dimitar Anakiev

18.
surrender in Stalingrad:
Field Marshal Paulus
becomes a Communist
. . Zinovy Vayman

19.
Gusts of rain
confirm the power of people
is indestructible
. . Dimitar Anakiev

20.
death day of Trotsky
Diego Rivera's truck
parked outside
. . Zinovy Vayman

21.
“Socialism or barbarism?”
asked Rosa Luxemburg before
she was killed
. . Dimitar Anakiev

22.
neither...
charisma, alpha males
rule under the sky
. . Zinovy Vayman

23.
Trying to see things
as clear as my cat seeking prey
I go back to Marxism
. . Dimitar Anakiev

24.
Communist Russia
the most adulterous land
amongst the giants
. . Zinovy Vayman

25.
Stalinism falsely
presented as communism:
Christian Rakovsky killed.
. . Dimitar Anakiev

26.
Walter Benjamin!
Listed as a Western Marxist,
a Jewish prodigy
. . Zinovy Vayman

27.
Camouflaged bureaucrats
presented as Marxists
just as defeatists
. . Dimitar Anakiev

28.
snow dusted obelisk
the eternal flame is off
for the last 14 years
. . Zinovy Vayman

29.
Revolutionary students
of today are waiting in the lines
of McDonald's restaurant
. . Dimitar Anakiev

30.
Boston circa 1980:
more socialism than
in the USSR
. . Zinovy Vayman

31.
Reformed leftists
refused Marxism embracing
“the only reality”
. . Dimitar Anakiev

32.
Susan Sontag
reading her diary
i became harsher towards her
. . Zinovy Vayman

33.
"Can a nation be free
if oppres other nations?"*
I ask a wild flower.
. . Dimitar Anakiev

*quotation by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

34.
contradiction
nation vs nation
nationalismus!
. . Zinovy Vayman

35.
Trotsky suggested
left-front instead of right-front...
What is the “People's Front”?
. .Dimitar Anakiev

36.
crossing Russia
in amazement
of its rebelling slaves
. .Zinovy Vayman

Written in summer 2013

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