get used to it ,poet-
rulers read your works
and know they are naked,so
they make you equally
Pablo Neruda's Nobel Prize
did not change his exile
Catullus ,Ovid, Cicero
these you know
Tell me ,then,can prisons hold wings?
Remember Siberia,Akhmatova?
Every poet dissident rounded up
before Wikileaks and the Internet
Even now,Official Secrets are an Act
GOOGLE is still censored
Transparency dull fish dishwater prose
Nobody believes in a Great Leap Forward
Silence is compulsory
Yet you sing poet!
Your voice aware and wary of death
silence and exile will not kill you (yet
Death is only when they kill all free expression
Shoot a dove,you kill the hawk by accident...
Socrates,refuse the hemlock!
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