Decadence

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Is this a word for decadence

where babies die a lingering death

fed poison in the food of nourishment?

Is this a word of decadence

where the vanity of bulldozer

eliminates the home of a lifetime

to show the dazzling glitter of a

culture in frenzied freefall

to unbrindled capitalism?



In the birdcage of captivity,
in the cube of Tienaman;
fresh from the sewers
like lemmings, they appear.
shuffling hopeless penguins.

A block away,the diamonds sparkle

in the Beijing Shopping Mall;

country peasants labourers scramble

on the bamboo scaffolding,

like the detrius - expendible

for life tomorrow starts afresh:

morality is absent:

long live Mao who feeds us.

us to economic remodelling

In the birdcage of captivity,
in the cube of Tienaman;
fresh from the sewers
like lemmings, they appear.
shuffling hopeless penguins.