|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||=
| /\ =
|
| | |_____________ =
|
| | |_____________} =
|
| \ |__| / =
|
| _ \ CAPITAL / _ =
|
| $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ =
|
| =
|
| HAPPY 181TH BIRTHDAY KARL!!!!!! MAY 5, 1818-1999 =
|
| =
|
| =
| =
|
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW=
karl heinrich marx
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
gigantic grandfather
jehovah-bearded
on brown daguerrotypes
i see your face
in the snow-white aura
despotic quarrelsome=20
and your papers in the linen press:
butcher's bills
inaugural addresses
warrants for your arrest
your massive body
i see in the "wanted" book
gigantic traitor
displaced person
in tail coat and plastron
consumptive sleepless
your gall-bladder scorched
by heavy cigars
salted gherkins laudanum
and liqueur
i see your house
in the rue d'alliance
dean street grafton terrace
gigantic bourgeois
domestic tyrant
in worn-out slippers:
soot and "economic shit" *
usury "as usual" *
children's coffins
backstair calamities
no machine-gun
in your prophet's hand:
i see it calmly
in the british museum
under the green lamp
break up your own house
with a terrible patience
gigantic founder=20
for the sake of other houses
in which you never woke up
gigantic zaddik
i see you betrayed
by your disciples:
only your enemies
remained what they were:
I see your face
on the last picture
of april eighty-two:
an iron mask:
an iron mask of freedom
* Quotations from Marx's letters to Engels in the 1850s and 1860s.
H.M.E.
From: Martha Gimenez <gimenez@csf.colorado.edu>
To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out <M-Fem@csf.colorado.edu>