Holy Karl Marx by Vern Fein

did you know that Jewish boy
raised by Hebrew Christians
in Germany over a century ago
saw Jesus as a socialist
wrote that little book
cried for all the workers
to break their chains and unite
throw the fat cats
Mary called out in the Magnificat
under the table
so that the wretched of the Earth
can sit at a table as long as the world
sup and sup
get all the other basics they need
but when a pandemic
crushes the world
we see the fat cats
still at the table
the workers cleave beef loins shovel dirt
spoon-feed patients punch cash registers
crawl in attics wheel gurneys
die under the table
as Marx turns over in his grave
wonders if we are going to get it
before that Communist Jesus
comes down takes
His own to the Place
where the cats can’t roam
About to be an octogenarian, Vern Fein started writing poetry a few years after he retired at seventy and has published over one hundred fifty poems on over seventy sites, a few being: *82 Review, Bindweed Magazine, Gyroscope Review, Courtship of Winds, Young Raven's Review, Nine Muses, Monterey Poetry Review, and Corvus Review. Twitter: @poetplain