second verse same as the first

[Michael Eisenstadt]

The Socialist Worker newspaper vendors were back at the
Farmers Market sarraday and so was I.

This time i got a redhaired, pale skinned intellectual
lady, very young and showing lots of skin. she was
selling Socialist Worker newspapers in the shade
under the line of trees on the east side of this
park.

she had heard of Trotsky unlike the young guy with
the tongue stud last week. the other vendors said
he was late.

they get the hard copy copies of the newspaper
every week down from Chicago. they apparently have
dropped Marx as the main theorist replacing him
with Englels (note to self: next week i got to
check the price of the newspaper to see whether
i care to pursue further why the Austin vendors
have been taught to push Engels to the passerbys
rather than Marx). Perhaps because so many passerbys
have been to night school and might recognize
Marx the name and turn aside.

Was it Marcuse who fessed up to never having
actually read Marx's Capital in toto? He did
have the decency to keep this dirty little
secret to himself until his very last years.

the Socialist Workers was an anti-Stalinist
but pro-revolutionary movement in the 1930s.
they were around at least until the fall of
the URSS in 1991. its nice to discover that
they are still around with the same pitch.
as a movement it may be as long-lived as the
Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons or the
Salvation Army or the Hairy Krishnas while
remaining refreshingly secular and welcome
to my eye.