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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?
Seryddwr [ap Lloyd]
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.
Seryddwr [ap Lloyd]
People believe all kinds of
People believe all kinds of crazy things these days