WTC 911 was America’s
Tiananmen
Stifling democracy
Clamping down militarily
One in the name of
capitalism
The other in the name of China
One to keep the enemy in
The other to keep the
enemy out
One to blame the Muslims
The other at a loss to
explain
Both killed thousands of
innocents
Both used the media for
ignorance
Both seem like they don’t
make sense
Both continue denying the
truth
But that’s where the
similarities stop
For Chinese economy is
growing for the people
America’s in the hands of
the two percent
America’s still blaming
foreigners
Assage, Snowden,
and Manning’s exposes
While free-speech goes into
a coma
Americans in debt until
they die
Addicted to opioids,
addicted to power
While China shares its
wealth with the workers
Obliterates poverty,
builds public confidence
China, where the
government controls business and religion
America, where business and religion control the government
China, where they work at
improving the ecology
America, where global
warming is denied
And the Taiwanese sit in
between
The people cannot choose
Any side we live in
tyranny of
The people will always
lose
Neoliberal two-party ruse
Demagogues and populists of
the KMT
Supporting unification
haphazardly
Military CIA laissez-faire propping the DPP
Independence screwed
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Copyright © 2019 by David Barry Temple. All rights reserved
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