I told myself I'd learn to write more formal poetry in 2018 because free verse feels insuccificient and prose is a bore. So, what did I write today? An acrostic with the caps lock on. And, what did I write
Three Poems I. Earth It is one thing to love your- self, quite another to grow. Fingerfew of topsoil & you remember the work of trees, that standing is proper to what the many do; you are the swain
"Eve Being Seduced By The Serpent," Jheironymus Bosch (1450) From Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944): "As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them
"Peach Blossom Spring" (detail), Qiu Yang (1530) From Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's What Is To Be Done?, from the chapter "Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism'": "We are marching in
"Orfeu Nos Infernos," Guilherme de Santa-Rita (1904) From The Invisible Comittee's The Coming Insurrection (2007): "Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance.
"Mazzo di Fiori," Julius Evola (1918) From Amadeo Bordiga's 1952 "Marxism Of The Stammerers": "There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't
"Untitled (Blue divided by blue)," Mark Rothko (1966) From Rosa Luxemburg's The Russian Revolution(1918) : “Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party
"Standing Male and Seated Female Nudes," Vincent van Gogh (1887) From Private Property and Communism (1848): "The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the relation
"Untitled," Gino Severini (1919) From Inaugural Address (1864): "Like slave labor, like serf labor, hired labor is but a transitory and inferior form, destined to disappear before associated
"Gettysburg Cyclorama" (detail), Paul Philippoteaux (1863) From Comments On The North American Events (1862): "Lincoln is not the product of a popular revolution. This plebeian, who worked
"Forgotten People," Godfrey Blow (1997) From Grundrisse (1857-8): "In fact of course, this 'productive' worker cares as much about the crappy shit he has to make as does the capitalist himself
"Corpuscular Pond," Chicote CFC (2016) From The Communist Manifesto (1848): "Law, morality, religion, are to [the proletarian] so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just
"Battle Of Issus," Albrecht Altdorfer (1529) From The Abolition of Landed Property (1869): "If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather
"Mammon," George Frederic Watts (1884-5) From the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, in the chapter titled "The Power of Money": "If money is the bond binding me to
"Soliloquies: Joy," Makoto Fujimura (2009) From Das Kapital (1867), Vol. 1: Capital is money, capital is commodities. … In truth, however, value is here the active factor in a process, in which,
"(725-3)," Gerhard Richter (1990) From The Communist Manifesto (1848): “All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all
"The Course of Empire: Destruction," Thomas Cole (1836) From The German Ideology(1845): "Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality
"American Trajedy," Ralph Fasanella (1964) From Human Needs & The Division Of Labour (1844): "When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, propaganda, etc., is their first
"The Funeral Of The Anarchist Galli," Carlo Carrá (1911) From Reflections Of A Young Man: "If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens
"Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Men crossing the Alps," JMW Turner (1812) From The Part Played By Labour In The Transition From Ape to Man: "Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch
