Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Reichstag fire

On Tiananmen Square, tankman stood alone
we never learned his name, nor knew his fate.
America now brings oppression home
as citizens get shanghaied by "our" state.
A generation later, that fight's here
as Trump's loosed armed battalions on the crowd.
Americans ain't used to disappear
for criticising Trumpty-Dump aloud.
The "insurrection" Trump hopes to provoke
so martial law'd be somehow justified
increasingly's attractive to the folk
who see police reports get falsified.
political dissent is jailed and gagged
when fascism comes home, wrapped in our flag.

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