07-03-2020, 02:06 PM
Welcome to the site, Exit, and thanks for your participation so far. I didn't get the Marx reference either, but I don't see any reason that it matters. If the poem stands on its own, it's just a layer that some readers will enjoy and others miss. Strangely, I didn't initially read this as a limerick, but that's the only way I can see it now.
(07-03-2020, 04:13 AM)Exit Wrote: edit
Cultivate the Living Flower
after Karl Marx
It's time to recalibrate focus.
This world's not your footnote "our" seems more appropriate than "your" for continuity with "us" and "we" in following strophes
but opus.
Let's live twice as free
as they want us to be
and give like we're giving
what's owed us.
original
Cultivate the Living Flower
It's time to recalibrate your focus.
This world's not your footnote
but opus.
Let's live twice as free
as they want us to be
and give like we're giving
what's owed us.