THE AGONY OF MAO

Mao almost had history by the tail

He had revolution down

But he was too early to know

That violence and death

No longer

Incentivized

Anything

But messy burials

Oh Mao

2

It seems so clear today

The force of former times

Is just passé

2a

It now takes reason to prevail

Revolutions now are good ideas

Validated by experience

Hatched around the campfires

Of communities

That sing

Oh Mao

3

Mao knew revolutions now

Are cultural

He did not know gunplay

Had no more place

There had to be a goal

Well comprehended

That was both true and

Beautiful at once

A random riddled corpse

Would never do

Oh Mao

4

Souls conjure revolutions from Consciousness’ Sea

Made real by the expressiveness of me and thee