The Revolutionary Fetish

The true attainment
is the burned-down system.

That's the Leninism:
be prepared!
like the Stalinist Boy Scout 
to take over and over and over.

Who doesn't love
a face that can't love?

The true leader:
a nose for death
and a taste for gain.

To be the cause 
of the end of things
is the mind's image
of lorded strings.

Dreams go from night to day
and stay on the saddle
where the mare is running
or being ridden;

control is in the eyes
beholder in the hands.