What a Puzzle Nick's Poems Are

Music: Fugue in F Major
By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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What a puzzle Nick's poems are! I cannot grasp what he is after. Marx is easier by far! Why write, if one is out to bar All comprehension? Does he hafta? Marx is easier by far. If only some new thought would jar Bourgeois perception, as in Kafka! But Nick's poems empty puzzles are. I think I would put him on par With Cage or Pollack: Which is dafter? Marx is easier by far. Under what sectarian star Was he begat? What gnomic laughter Twists those poems which puzzles are? Ah me! I'll never know. A for- Eign joke, a filial disaster! God! Such puzzles Nick's poems are! Marx is easier--by far!