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A Sane Revolution

If you make a revolution, make it for fun,
Don't make it in ghastly seriousness,
Don't do it in deadly earnest,
Do it for fun.

Don't do it because you hate people,
Do it just to spit in their eye.
Don't do it for the money,
Do it and be damned to the money.

Don't do it for equality,
Do it because we've got too much equality
And it would be fun to upset the apple-cart
And see which way the apples would go a-rolling.

Don't do it for the working-classes.
Do it so that we can all of us be little aristocracys on our own
And kick our heels like jolly escaped asses.

Don't do it, anyhow, for international Labour.
Labour is one thing a man has had too much of.
Let's abolish Labour, let's have done with Labouring!
Work can be fun, and men can enjoy it; then it's not Labour.
Let's have it so! Let's make a revolution for fun!

- D. H. LAWRENCE


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If you know what's going on in the MST3K fanfic world, then you know why I posted that poem. It's one of my favorite poems for many reasons. When I tried overthrowing the school government, people always asked me why I was going up against them. They expected some long speech about how it would better the school. Instead I said "It seemed like a fun idea at the time."

And thus spoke the left wing Liberal. A big change from right wing me, who died back in grade 10. I'm not sure what killed her, but it may have had something to do with the movie "Roger and Me" and communications class.