Pablo Neruda,
Your communistic poetry,
Your communistic poetry
That you a rebel,
That you a revolutionary,
That you a hardcore communist,
A Red on the side,
side of Marx, Lenin, Stalin
And Mao
You a communist party member,
A central committee member,
A Marxist, a Leninist, a Stalinist,
A Maoist
Neruda,
Pablo Neruda.
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