Tiananmen Square

Yevtushenko wrote that there wereNo memorials at Babiy Yar –So Shostakovich offered his symphony.But no bells toll in ChinaFor the mutilated in body and spirit,Or for the dead Xi Jinping denies.Tiananmen Square is not polluted,Says Xi, the atmosphere is crystal clear.There are no wailing ghosts in despairTo be seen or heard on China’s pretend tv.And only foreign devils tell talesOf bodies torn apart by shells.There was no slaughter of the innocentsXi and his crew tell the world:The dead deserved to die and be buriedIn hidden graves.Deng Xiaoping wielded the knifeThirty years ago,But Xi Jinping, the current hatchet man,Mutilates history and secular-sacred facts.

We all buy the bargain basement stuff thoughThat communist-capitalist China sends,And our politicians lose their garrulousGift of the gab when China is twinned with Tyranny.