Hong Kong Shanghaid By Beijing's Great Firewall Wall Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Hong Kong Shanghaid By Beijing's Great Firewall Wall



Deng Xiaoping is rolling over in his grave
I was in attendance in Beijing in February 1997
The parades was adorned with white
Do atheist believe in heaven?
Mao Tse Tung was rolling in his grave
When China had a 'open door policy'
Where were you when the man stood in front of a tank in Tienanmen Square?
In 1989 Beijing launched an offensive against its own people
I stood in very same Square where hundreds were massacred
Is Hong Kong going share fate?
Hong Kong was a 99 year lease from China to Britain
All to expire in 1998
'One country, two systems.'
Where it prospered, the communists learned from capitalists
The 'OPEN DOOR POLICY' coupled with the Hong Kong model was the future key
In China's fiscal diplomacy
The Great Wall was created to keep the Mongol hoards out
Mainland China
The Firewall of China is presently being created to the digital information out
Mainland China
The Great Wall was built by the Ming Dynasty
The latest wall is not Apple's design to keep the apps out the door
Right now as I listen to CNN the students and people, who side the students,
of Hong Kong are in an uproar
Because Beijing was calling the shots at elections of the leaders of Hong Kong
- - not people of Hong Kong.
They yearn to be heard, Beijing is not like E. F. Hutton, it doesn't like to listen.
Meanwhile, Americans to their shopping at Wal-MART or Amazon
they will soon be buying at Alibaba
'Open Sesame! '
Lining Beijing pockets with dollars to prevent democracy
from enacted
How American is that!
I was part of it, I spent money in China
I did purchase a Pi'Pa, a Chinese 4-string lute,
I had written a grad paper at Eastern Michigan University,
About Chinese music, the Li and Lu, the Yin and Yang, of the pentatonic music scale
There is much to learn from Chinese culture
Too bad for the people of China
Jeffersonian democracy isn't one of them.

9- 29-12

Monday, September 29, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: politics
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Joe Rosochacki

Joe Rosochacki

Hamtramck, Michigan
Close
Error Success