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Back in \emph{tachanka} days, when Red and Green
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Pursued in turn each other and the White,
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Out on the steppe, I'm told, there could be seen
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A novel sight


Professors of philosophy, whom war
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From some provincial faculty dismissed
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To seek new pastures on the Black Sea shore,
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Fell in with Makhno - anarchist,


Terrorist, bandit, call him what you will -
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Who spared their lives and, either for a laugh
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Or from some vague respect for mental skill,
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Attached them to his staff.


Their duties were not hard. For months or years,
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Lacking a porch in which to hold debate,
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These peripatetics, ringed by Cossack spears,
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Had leisure to discuss The State.


With flashing pince-nez, while the sabres flashed,
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They sat berugged in carts in deep dispute,
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Or in some plundered village hashed and thrashed
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The nature of The Absolute


Bergsonians quite enjoyed it: from the first
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They'd known Duration to depend on Space.
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But Nietzscheans found their values arsey-versed
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By Supermen of unfamiliar race.


And, whereas Platonists got mulligrubs,
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Cynics were cheerful - though I'll not deny
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They grumbled when obliged to share their tubs
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With hogs from Epicurus' sty.


On quiet nights, bandits would form a ring
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And listen with amazed guffaws
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As syllogisms flew, and pillaging
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Was reconciled with Universal Laws.


Symposia were held, whereat the host
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(taught by the Hegelians of the Left)
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In stolen vodka would pronounce a toast
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To Proudhon's dictum: Property is Theft!


How did this idyll end? Theres some confusion.
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Makhno, I fear was caught -
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Perhaps he let his native resolution
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Get sicklied o'er with other peoples thought.


But what of his philosophers? I feel
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Certain they reached an Academe at last
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Where each in his own manner might conceal
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His briefly bandit past.


To fool the OGPU or the CIA
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Would not be hard for any skilled expounder
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Of Substance and Illusion, growing grey
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But ever metaphysically sounder.


Yet each might feel at times old memories stir,
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And know himself, as ever, set apart:
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Once, among bandits a philosopher;
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Now, among academics, Green at heart.


In fact - I've wondered- take Professor X -
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Mightn't his arid manner be a blind?
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Are those lack-lustre eyes, behind those specs,
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Truly the mirror of his mind?


Or is the real man, far away
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From Kantian imperatives, once more
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Roaming the steppe, not as a waif and stray
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But waging revolutionary war?


Although his tongue belabours
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The stony boundaries of a bloodless creed,
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His soul is back again among the sabres
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Yelling, "The Deed! The Deed!"







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