Many more Cuba - 12 Jan 09

Many more Cuba
and its example since
there are no longer
any Chés, Mandelas,
Bikos or Sobukwes
to inspire selflessness

Many more Cuba
resigned we seem with
the not-so-free enterprise of
the price-fixing life
of World Bank-poverty
and the oxymoron
of service delivery

Many more Cuba
what with Cuba’s health
and education systems
and their altruism
towards us and others

Many more Cuba
its detractors want
multi-party politicians
and multi-party elections

(this will amply show
the multifariousness of
our collective poverty
in the ideas category)

Many more Cuba
as they celebrate 50
stymied as we all are
by imperialisms-past
and its daily presence

Cuba – the country of beards
we beards looked to the model
we enthused over now forgotten
too conveniently

Many more to Cuba

The Cuban Revolution has outlasted many an American presidential dynasty (says comrade unemployed welder and non-beard Richard Meyer, echoing Raul Castro). Cuba is still alive and well, and so is Fidel. Penned the morning of Saturday, January 10 2008.