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Two Chinese fellows approached me in a London suburb	A
They were eager for talk	B
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Karl Marx's tomb they implored directions to the tomb	C
please They were pronouncing tomb as if it rhymed with home	D
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Suited up in their Mao jackets and identically dressed	E
without hint to rank or station they struck me as strangely	F
odd even on the thoroughfares of a metropolitan city I had	G
noticed they wore no green armband common to other	H
Communist dignitaries	I
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The smaller of the two became insistent	J
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I nodded and smiled at the mention of Marx's name for it	K
was Highgate and yes he was interred in the rambling	L
cemetery near by Yes I had visited the grave but was no	M
means clear it was a grave they had come all this way to	N
visit	O
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They were shy but puzzled at my redirection of their query	F
I pointed out there was no home as they were	H
pronouncing it but only a grave	P
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It was then that their enunciation and the silent murder of	Q
the letter T came back to me Like the Cockney unable	R
to say h in elocution class their confusion was furthered	S
by knowing only one word for final resting place My	T
own use of grave was causing them grave concern	U
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They were looking curiously at one another I doubt if they	V
had ever heard North American accented English I might	W
have been their first authentic American short of a	X
simulated war games exercise Certainly though all cities	I
are polyglots I had never seen two so authentically attired	Y
citizens of The People's Republic	Z
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It was an amusing moment life with the sang froid	Y
of the unspoken	A2
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I gave them their dues They had their directions They	V
pranced off smartly and melted into the morning traffic	B2
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And I thought of trying to explain that Marx at least	Y
in unofficial circles here is not considered with their same	C2
deference	D2
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I'm sorry if this jars with what you've been told Wu	N
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And no this is not counter revolutionary lies The truth is	E2
Mr Han Marx was a chiseler He died owing nearly	F
every wage earner in The Village	F2
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Talk of irony and final verdicts How one who numbers	G2
among the age's savants could so brazenly ignore such hard	Y
economic fact seemed incredible to me Skulduggery aside	Y
such a thing even if only partially true would be scant	Y
tribute to the fabled man I thought of the British	H2
Museum's collection of his writings then remembered it	Y
mentioned nothing of this fact Glowing tributes of course	I2
but no unofficial flack	J2
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And I thought of the possibility of a third world war being	L
in part based on this development Marx's embitterment	Y
that is his inability to pay even the most modest debt	Y
through his writing And should there ever come another	H
global catastrophe I imagined how Marx would extend his	E2
wrath	K2
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At the doctrine of dialectic materialism's doorstep Between	L2
the incompatibility of work and her governing classes	M2
Exportable revolution The decadent bourgeoisie struggling	L
to maintain their stranglehold on comfort The Gospel	R
completely according to Karl	N2
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That would be without considering the question of Marx's	M2
alleged incest with his daughter But then most everything	L
in the Marx story is alleged The alleged politics of	Q
confrontation The alleged incompatibility of those who toil	O2
with their rulers The alleged inertia of labourers even to	Y
the degree of their exploitation And yes the alleged	Y
superiority of any one system over another	H
	-
Of course reference would be made to the irony of Marx	M2
being buried and remaining interred throughout the years in	P2
one of the most class conscious nations on earth	Q2
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Where every accent and syllable decrees one's station in	P2
life	R2
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Where every utterance labels the speaker according to rank	S2
and social standing by rigid calling	L
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I thought of myself discussing such things with the	X
perturbed yet unmovable ideologues of the People's	M2
Democratic Republic of China	X
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Did they know Marx's friend and colleague Engels kept a	X
mistress Did they care that Marx disapproved	Y
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Imagine using the word grave in the same breath as	M2
grave offence to discuss incest Glib moralizing the	X
trumpet of the bourgeoisie I seem to remember Lenin's	M2
disdainful no omelettes with first cracking the eggs	M2
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Perhaps all communication is claptrap	T2
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All these fellows wanted were directions	M2
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Their minds were made up	T2
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They were attending a secular church walking in	P2
the footsteps of an earthbound saint No amount of revisionist	Y
thinking could deflect in their eyes Marxian achievement	Y
And you had to give Marx certain dues That before people	R
are capable of aspiring to work they must first be fed And	Y
all contacts within life must inevitably come through and	Y
be restricted by how one has chosen to make that daily	F
bread Or in Marx's words how one is prevented from	U2
advancing by artificial class barriers Precisely	F
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Poles apart Worlds away	V
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The two Chinese chaps and I were living proof of that	Y
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I wondered if they would have been interested in seeing the	X
Dicken's plaque nearby The novelist too had stayed only	F
a street away Little Dorritt would have been pleased even	P2
if the jury is still out on which thinker alerted the world	Y
most to the evils of uncontrolled profit	Y
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I for one care little for the revolutionary proletariat or	V2
repudiated communist dogma but I do like to eat Marx	M2
made his point	Y

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