POEM CONSTRUCTED FROM LENIN'S SPEECH TO THE ISC IN BERNE

by Marfa Gladkov

When the war actually broke out it was
pining in Siberia
for decades—
distributed manifestoes,
made
enormous profits,
growing ferment,
and
energetically carried
the masses of the workers—
those
who
view the future with disrepair,
who are starving—
into
their work.


the greatest of crimes:
lifelong exile
of
the irregular army of the people.
no
real preparations are being made.
no
real cause of the war.


only fighting
and
hundreds of millions of dollars
and
the mass of class conscious workers,
not only suffering,
but
gathering strength
in the trenches.