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  • June 17, 2017 at 1:48 pm #70153
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    June 17, 2017 at 4:22 pm #70154
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    Freedom

    (by Himani Bannerji: 1986)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himani_Bannerji

    Someone is standing in a three-piece suit.
    He is lecturing at us.
    The stylus of his teeth are falling precisely
    in the right grooves.
    He has filled the black spaces behind him
    With abstractions of paper flowers and birds
    He wants them to sing, to go on blooming
    “I am talking about freedom,” he says
    “A complete freedom of thought and action,” he says
    “Over there in Russia they have put out her light.”

    Over here
    Below the platform he stands on
    A woman is counting her pennies for coffee
    She has a plastic bag which is her cosmos
    Her flat feet are terribly swollen
    Blue veins stand out on her legs
    like a child’s page of knots and crosses
    Her mouth hugs the French fry
    as the only certainty she knows
    She eats with great love, lingeringly
    wipes her hand on her hair
    Her eyes weep freely unaccountably.

    Sighing, listening to the radio she turns to me
    “That’s right dear,” she says to me “Here we are free
    we can vote here you know
    choose our own government
    They can’t over there in Russia.”

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