To Us Love Says Humming That The

To Us Love Says Humming That The Heart's Stalled Motor Has Begun Working Again.

But I, From Poetry's Skies, Plunge Into Communism, Because Without It I Feel No Love.

Comrade Life, Let Us March Faster, March Faster Through What's Left Of The Five-year Plan.

I Understand The Power And The Alarm Of Words - Not Those That They Applaud From Theatre-boxes, But Those Which Make Coffins Break From Bearers And On Their Four Oak Legs Walk Right Away.

Formerly I Believed Books Were Made Like This: A Poet Came, Lightly Opened His Lips, And The Inspired Fool Burst Into Song – If You Please! But It Seems, Before They Can Launch A Song, Poets Must Tramp For Days With Callused Feet, And The Sluggish Fish Of The Imagination Flounders Softly In The Slush Of The Heart. And While, With Twittering Rhymes, They Boil A Broth Of Loves And Nightingales, The Tongueless Street Merely Writhes For Lack Of Something To Shout Or Say