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
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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