That poet

That poet you admire so–
in my fifteen years
in the workers movement
I've never seen him
in attendance at
a demonstration against
social injustice, or at
a memorial honoring
a revolutionary hero,
or at a rally in support
of an uprising people–

is not even a fighting
surrealist
but a bibelot
dribbling over
with obsolete pus.

Jack Hirschman


(Picture: Theme & Variations Decorative Plate #166 (Woman's Face in Jar), Fornasetti)