Everything we thought was true was not true

Everything we thought was true was not true.
Everything we thought was right was wrong.
The leaders whom we idolized were madmen,
Mass murderers, whose crimes we helped along.
We were the volunteers for genocide,
The dupes who gave out leaflets for the devil,
For whom obscene dictatorships were good
And our own democracies were evil.
We were the organizers of the poor,
The [...]

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Political Poetry

I want to make two observations:
1. People who enjoy reading poetry, writing poetry, or thinking about poetry should check out the on-line political poetry journal Pemmican. I just discovered it and obviously I’m impressed. Did I say if you are a writer you should take a look at Pemmican? Okay, good. Progressives, socialists, and [...]

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