{"id":46605,"date":"2014-08-25T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=46605"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:40","slug":"a-poem-on-the-74th-anniversary-of-leon-trotskys-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/08\/a-poem-on-the-74th-anniversary-of-leon-trotskys-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem on the 74th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky\u2019s Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today [21 Aug 2014] is the 74th anniversary of the murder in Mexico City, by an agent of Soviet Military Intelligence, of the exiled co-organiser of the Russian Revolution. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"trotsky-dead\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0You Are the Old Man in the Blue House <\/strong>
\n
\n<\/em>Making impossible promises to yourself.
\nOutdoors the cactus, the wolves.
\nThe hour of nowhere else to go.
\nIt\u2019s a decade since the new god stamped
\nyour passport \u2018invalid\u2019.
\nYour fifty-ninth birthday is candied plums
\nand two small orchestras.
\nOut there your friends welcome
\nbullets in the back of the head.
\nAn August storm batters the porch
\nwith the Chief Prosecutor\u2019s words:
\nDown with the vulture, these miserable hybrids <\/em>
\nof foxes and pigs<\/em>!
\nIn your hand
\nthe pistol with not enough ammunition.
\nYou wait for you know not who
\nto hug your skull and whisper.
\n\u201cEverything is finished\u201d;
\nindulge in just one more
\npromise that won\u2019t come true over
\nthe candied plums and two small orchestras
\nin the hour of nowhere else to go.
\n______________________________<\/p>\n

This is a poem I wrote about Trotsky’s last years. He wrote extensively about literary and artistic matters, co-authoring (with Andr\u00e9 Breton & Diego Rivera) a <\/em>‘Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art<\/a>‘. <\/em>The poem has also been translated into Spanish and published in the online Mexican literary magazine <\/em>Cuadrivio<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It originally appeared in The Galway Advertiser<\/a> in 2009. <\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 weknowwhatsup.blogspot.pt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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