I was about to share it with people claiming it was from Neruda. I did a bit of searching and it appears that it is indeed apocryphal. Thanks for saving me the embarrassment.

Not surprised to see such a salty reply from a Neruda fan.

I am not a particular fan of Neruda (I prefer Vallejo,Ramos Sucre or Machado), so save your snarky comment.

I barely know anything about Neruda, and i was thinking... geez, I thought he was known as a good poet, did he really write that garbage? Maybe it lost something in translation? Whether you 'agree' with what it's apparently didactically trying to say or not, that's just a bad poem.

> Maybe it lost something in translation?

Native Spanish speaker here, and the original text is just as lackluster

Savage burn. Their True Neruda Fan Score is never going to recover from that one.

Perhaps you in your limited understanding of communism, fed to your by your propagandist overlords to control you, have failed to understand how someone could hold both views. Or maybe you just don't get people. multitudes.

Either way, it's a fact. Protip: this is the part where you see reality and update your perspective