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Commissars


ara baliozian

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Saturday, July 12, 2003

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Commissars and dialogue,

commissars and democracy,

commissars and free speech,

commissars and human rights:

not so much apples and oranges

as fire and waiter,

cannibals and missionaries,

black and white,

Armenians and Turks,

Armenians and Armenians….

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Perhaps my ambition in life

is to be a commissar to commissars.

Call me a megalomaniac run amok.

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Where ideology enters,

literature is prostituted.

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Where commissars enter

literature exits.

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We were talking about bosses,

commissars, and skinheads,

when my interlocutor (a scientist) said:

“If you want to understand these characters,

observe jungle animals.

A single page of zoology

can be more illuminating

than ten volumes of psychology.”

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Every day I am reminded by a fraction of my

readers

(make it, killer-commissars)

that I don't deserve to live.

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Intolerance is the seed,

massacre the tree.

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