Full Marx Poem by Sathya Narayana

FULL MARX
"We had to root out class enemies, which were categorized as the black five, " said former Red Guard Yang Nainming in an interview with Vision Times last year. Landlords, rich farmers, counter-revolutionaries, bad-influencers, and rightists made up the "black five" that communist leader Mao Zedong identified as enemies of the revolution.
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It was an answer sheet
written in bright red ink!
The exam. went on well
without any invigilators
and there're no examiners
to dare correct.

Those hammered lies
and sickled truths
on paper got them full Marx.

The master was pleased
and the alumnae
soon started etching
the fate on the foreheads
of lay ruffians.
The ink became ruddier,
brighter
and pungently viscose.

Yes, the lessons started working...
the noisome smell
of burning thigh flesh
permeated the world
from frozen Siberian tundras
crossing the Great Baikul Trail.
The Stallion galloped mad
like a death machine
asthe crimson law became
a restlessguillotine!
GULAG loved
the screams from labour camps!
Elsewhere at Tiananman
the pink blood of protesting students
flowed over the streets.
The Red Guards bulldozed over
the so called Black Five
as the lamentations
of peace-loving Lamas at Tibet
still resonate through
the democratic wall of the world.

But in India
still spilling is maroon ink!

Can we pity the morons? !