You can’t make a new man but you can kill old ones
Walter Benjamin in Moscow 1927 noted posters
exhorting the masses with the slogan “Time Is Money”
attributed to Lenin the only god the lazy Russians
masses pretended to listen to but did not
no matter how big Majakovski made the letters
New Man apexed in “Metropolis”
then the execution of prototypes was on.
Lenin like Chernishevski asked “what is to be done?”
Tramways sleds steel factories babies breast milk pioneers
Lenin and the The New Man capitalized themselves even in this poem
thanks to their monster babies spchk and auto-correct
Benjamin went to Moscow at the right time or just in time
to escape being an executed prototype or frozen in the tundra.
His timing served him by not being in New York either in 2020
a lucky man he wrote his thoughts and executed himself
he was the New Man after all not leninist not sci-fi a free man