Twice denunciated: regularly mailing a card
to test the postal service
—a reminder to write music for the masses;
measured, the response to just criticism.
Not an opium addict:
no belief in God, and very sorry about it
—note the quoting of self.

A tsar falls from heaven hanging
o’er the May Day march toward socialism
| steps out of Chaos |.
Metronomic, the tics to the hammering tocks
of clocks interlocking, sickles cycle
in the fields of crystal harmony—
fist-pumps of the workers.