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MAYAKOVSKY IN BLUE
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BINGEWATCHING bOJACK hORSEMAN
Mayakovsky in blue
but unable
unwilling
to accept
communism, futurism,
violence
and though the dada
is filtered
with intellectualism
though what is
what it be
though I see
& hear
words of prophets
denounced
Little sense made
misunderstood
by masses
unable
unwilling
Flowing streams
of thought
slaloming along
consciousness
of a poetry
unkown
unfulfilled
unknown
unfullfilled
I think I get this, but not
I think I get this, but not entirely sure. Could you explicate this for me?
Starward
I was kinding making fun of
I was kinding making fun of the swiftness with which some intellectuals were to embrace communism. I wrote this many moons ago so sometimes, I'm left trying to guess what the Hell I was writing about.
Understood, and yes, they did
Understood, and yes, they did seem to latch on to the program of what then was called the Social Democrat Party (if I recall my Russian history correctly), which, under the agitation of Lenin evolved into the Bolshevik party and then the Communist party.
Starward
People believe all kinds of
People believe all kinds of crazy things these days