tiananmen

Written back in 2002, posted here a little late for the 15th anniversary of the massacre last Thursday/Friday, but I hope still worthwhile.

tiananmen

bullets spark off th road flies on a river. liang stops + kneels lk scooping
colourd stones out th water. wen sum1s shot evrything rejects it they keep
walking turn their hed 2 say + u keep going. @ muxidi bridge block soldiers
w/trams cars burning trooptransport concrete what debris 2 hand they walk 4ward
fire in th air walk 4ward fire @ th peopl walk 4ward teargas dust
smoke heat off th tarmac. surfaces gritty slippy oil + sweat
+ humidity blood. reports of 1000s ded dont kno ive sin maybe
a dozen student w/a pulsing raisd tear in her neck grandmutha caesarian
ript + bloody. days we try stop soldiers coming in small groups t-shirts
civilian diffrent ways.

botl hollow hard splash burning burst 2ward uniform + boots
sum1 lifts rifle they snatch. r rocks bounce @ shins hit sholdas
hands we turn + run regroup. toothbuzz shake + metalstess crash
stomach punch armord cars + tanks my feet fl blisterd flat
lk shoeless. cramping lac of sleep food outside allnite ive bin here
a week since midnite. walk 4ward not warning anymor fire @ sky
th ground us. truck overturnd demonstrators drum th side w/stiks
soldiers beaten on th legs + stop crawled or standing + gather firing
bac. student demands posters ript shredded burnd off walls
staind. chen smasht face in th ground 3, 7, lose count
teeth lip split. hear gunshots smoke rising + ova there
+ ova there + peopl running.