All your talk
about freedom and democracy
is sheer claptrap,
parrot phrases,
fashionable twaddle,
or hypocrisy.
It is just a painted signboard.
And you yourselves are
whited sepulchres. You
are mean-spirited boors,
and your education, culture,
and enlightenment are
only a species of
thoroughgoing prostitution.
A quotation from Lenin’s Collected Works, found at Stalin’s Moustache. Submitted by Marika Rose.
Verbatim Poetry 