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A watercolor painting of the English poet Sean Bonney, to whom Jasper Bernes's poem is dedicated.

After Sean Bonney

Come on, Communism!
Can’t we just aufhebung
Those feds before they reproduce
Society nine trillion more times
Today? we could rip open
The prisons, liberate Palestine
River to sea, destitute state
___and capital by classless
Human community in full
Resource of itself, tractable
And transparent in each
Vector of its multimotion
Around the instances of our
Accounting for each other.
I know you want it, everything
For everyone, the diagram
Of action totaled over each all,
No longer lowered and shrunken
To fit the camera-eye of bourgeois
Right. they kill us everyday you don’t
Tell us what to do in case of
Insurrection global fascism climate collapse
Designs for barricades, principles
For communist production
And distribution, seedvaults, seawalls.
Come on, comrade!
It’s not too late.

 

 


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