To The Masses

[serge gurkski]

To The Masses




Contribution to the Harlem Renaissance


I pray the sweetness of hope
instead of love.

Do not – for the best of you – indulge in that
pool of pain made so to break you
once you lost this sweet feeling.

You better do not
corrupt the stones that hold you,
but should you feel so inclined,
to cut it short; do, please, not
waste away what you don't have yet,




In the dim light of dust * I changed that line
I tumble around and the days
steal themselves away.
The lovers come and go,
leaving me lonely and
politics is not soothing me either:
I talk America, I talk to a beautiful nation.

Beautiful is not you my friend,
but the concept that governs you, is.
Just dare to read it.
Jefferson is sexy lines
on which your independence
rests.

Let me quote him among the “citizens of heaven:“


In Congress, The Fourth of July, 1776

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. 

Etc

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*I changed that line.