08/08/08 - Olympiad

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there's a haze over Beijing tonight

91,000 breaths breathing blue.

i can hear it coming from downstairs

the announcers ignoring beaten souls.

"save us! save us!" they scream

i'm only one boy, barely eighteen.

what do i do? seven thousand miles away

across an ocean, past the great

firewall

those flames lick the edges of my dreams.

but we are not free

information burns slowly

behind the doors of room six-forty-one A.

AT&T are letters, just like NSA

and here we are in our homes

behind these paper walls. 

There's a haze over Beijing tonight

and I'm struggling between my

great pride and great shame.

somewhere out there, we're all watching

and I know we're not so far apart.

Posted by changc on August 08, 2008 12:44 PM | This page has been viewed 206 times. | Permalink
Content Tags: poetry, beijing olympics, 2008 olympics, china olympics, censorship, great firewall of china, spying, privacy, civil liberties, human rights, writing, listen

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