Tuesday, June 2, 2020

How Little Has Changed




I’m reading poetry from China,
first century BC,
and thinking ‘how little has changed’.

And now I see a video of a white policeman
murdering a black man,
and I’m thinking ‘how little has changed’.

Now I see a man,
white and powerful, using this to gain advantage
and I think ‘how little has changed’.

And I wonder how so little has changed:
that, even now, an autocrat may gain the favour of citizens
while fellow citizens die.

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