the next revolution

Now, Carrie Lam implies she's just the glove
concealing Moscow's fist that moves her mouth.
Authority's imposed by those above,
while on the street, the markets have gone South.
In '97, Hong Kong money fled
to Canada, where passports could be bought
by those who were unwilling to go Red,
regardless what Mao's Little Red Book taught.
The Communists now look to Chairman Xi
who long ago discarded Marx' books.
As long a some enjoy prosperity
mainlanders like the State to stay unshook.
The hopes that Tiananmen Square's legions heard
won't be forgotten, 'though they get deferred.

Tanur Akhnai

"It's not in Heaven!" Joshua replied
we rule with the majority in court
the canon's closed, and duly sanctified,
so Eliezer's case was cut off short.
What's supernatural is of no note.
And God himself can't sway the argument.
The rabbis here-assembled get to vote
and points are scored on Torah precedent.
And yet,  where there's no chesed, justice fails.
To excommunicate a sage is bad.
The grievance festers, with all that entails
when Eliezer davens shachrit, mad.
Asserting dominance left one man dead
although he'd been the council's rightful head.