Lenin on Linen



Lenin’s on the linen 

For a million in the gallery

Let’s go make a killing off in Galilee

Pumping up petroleum

Linseed oil’s also called linoleum 

Line extends from linen 

But it’s woven in a pattern 

Extending from the Pater,

From the patriarchy 

Yes, Spinoza knows a

Lot 

The spiny tree

Ablaze on the hilltop 

Oh, you know, says Lenin 

For each law there’s an exception 

And the word law

Means a mountain, too 

The place, the Topos

The Logos both 

The visible and 

the invisible flame 

The path of justice, Asha, truth

Or unjust laws, falsehood, Druj 

Parmenides’ paths: 

Aletheia or doxa 

Veronica, 

Phero of Nike,

Brings victory

Not peace 

Nike from Neikos,

Strife, disease 

Remember this 

When you look at your feet

Investigate means 

Follow the vestigia 

The tracks

But what do you track? 

What’s in your tract?

What do you investigate? 

Educate, emancipate 

The exception to fate

Ex hodos

Means path out

And method’s the path through 

Halakha means the way to walk 

Sharia’s the path to water 

Congress (yes, gress, 

as in ingress or egress, 

or progress)

Means walking together 

A constitutional, that’s a walk, too 

For one’s health 

Pre-walk, the preamble 

Declares its purpose:

Establishing justice 

Ius, or Eus, or Yos 

The General welfare, 

To fare well 

The concrete conditions 

Of peace 

And fear itself 

The Impediment 

Fear of the other 

The mark of the beast