Results and Prospects

by Walter Bargen

Originally published on March 1, 2001

Trotsky said, “The biggest surprise that comes
to a man is old age,” or something like that.
Leader of the October Revolution, he must’ve
known how they end, always one more body to add
to the heap.  Sooner or later, in a sidewalk café
in Trieste, sharing coffee and scones,
the early hours uneventful and lacking imagination,
the proletariat rush-to-work past, he [...]