01 March 2013

meditation on london sympathy

relations with comrade london
initially cold

grade 7 or 8
call of the wild
awful teacher
old white lady
gave me my first d
cant even remember
what for
or her name

not impressed
boy nature wolf story
just didnt speak to me

college i think
to build a fire
shorter
more urgent
dire

man vs nature
just not
theme i appreciate
i guess
but
clumsiness
that sense of

what has been done
cannot now be undone

in the worst possible way

i imagine that spoke to
me better

it was years later yet
mayday books of course
i laid eye on the iron heel
dystopian fiction from
the crypto socialist

not so crypto turns
rather unspoken often
hushed up but perhaps
a fact asserting itself
a little more now that
leftist ideas are if not
fashionable at least
a subject at all again

& the iron heel
well not the best dystopian fiction
ive ever read

honestly that honor would have to go
to 1984 & hunger games
in a fight to the death between them
maybe amiable defiant alliance

anyway
not bad prescient way
format somewhat innovative
its time considered

heard now by way
of the nature manly rumor mill
comrade london was into nietzsche
social darwinism too
complicating character
& strange kinship
synthesis of divergent tastes
must needs find
a biography

speak now mediocre brother
from the halls of the dead

yours for the revolution
forbidden books

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