“The Leaves Are Burning” – Poem for Tahir 2/3-4/2011

Open the jails/ Let those we threw away trample the polite/ Open the purse/ Bribe the poor, the mad, the pathologically dispossessed/ Give them clubs, bullwhips, petrol bombs/ Demand obedience/ All plainclothes police, NDP footsoldiers, oil company thugs/ Run the risk of documentation/ Firearms below the waist/ Aim for the knees, the calves, the thighs/ Never glance at the camera/ This is what Mubarak looked like/ Open diplomatic channels/ Let the Weasel Errand Boy from Goldman Sachs construct the political calculus/ Mubarak=Sulieman=Netanyahu=hegemony/ Let the “caretakers” bury Tahir Square

ALL POWER TO THE “FACEBOOKERS”/ FIRST THE BURNING LEAVES/ THEN THE CLEANSING FIRE                                                               – rmgg53