PBS<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>where a more detailed report on the poet & the occasion of the poem can be found.<\/p>\nBy Liao Yiwu, Translated by Wenguang Huang<\/b><\/p>\n
(Composed on the morning of June 4, 1989)<\/em>
\nDedicated to those who were killed on June 4, 1989<\/em>
\nDedicated to the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution<\/em><\/p>\nLeap! Howl! Fly! Run!
\nFreedom feels so good!
\nSnuffing out freedom feels so good!
\nPower will be triumphant forever.
\nWill be passed down from generation to generation forever.
\nFreedom will also come back from the dead.
\nIt will come back to life in generation after generation.
\nLike that dim light just before the dawn.
\nNo. There\u2019s no light.
\nAt Utopia\u2019s core there can never be light.
\nOur hearts are pitch black.
\nBlack and scalding.
\nLike a corpse incinerator.
\nA trace of the phantoms of the burned dead.
\nWe will exist.
\nThe government that dominates us will exist.
\nDaylight comes quickly.
\nIt feels so good.
\nThe butchers are still ranting!
\nChildren. Children, your bodies all cold.
\nChildren, your hands grasping stones.
\nLet\u2019s go home.
\nBrothers and sisters, your shattered bodies littering the earth.
\nLet\u2019s go home.
\nWe walk noiselessly.
\nWalk three feet above the ground.
\nAll the time forward, there must be a place to rest.
\nThere must be a place where sounds of gunfire and explosions cannot
\nbe heard.
\nWe so wish to hide within a stalk of grass.
\nA leaf.
\nUncle. Auntie. Grandpa. Granny. Daddy. Mummy.
\nHow much farther till we\u2019re home?
\nWe have no home.
\nEveryone knows.
\nChinese people have no home.
\nHome is a comforting desire.
\nLet us die in this desire.
\nOPEN<\/span>\u00a0FIRE<\/span>,\u00a0BLAST<\/span>\u00a0AWAY<\/span>,\u00a0FIRE<\/span>!
\nLet us die in freedom.
\nRighteousness. Equality. Universal love.
\nPeace, in these vague desires.
\nStand on the horizon.
\nAttract more of the living to death!
\nIt rains.
\nDon\u2019t know if it is rain or transparent ashes.
\nRun quickly, Mummy!
\nRun quickly, son!
\nRun quickly, elder brother!
\nRun quickly, little brother!
\nThe butchers will not let up.
\nAn even more terrifying day is approaching.
\nOPEN<\/span>\u00a0FIRE<\/span>!\u00a0BLAST<\/span>\u00a0AWAY<\/span>!\u00a0FIRE<\/span>! IT\u00a0FEELS<\/span>\u00a0GOOD<\/span>!\u00a0FEELS<\/span>\u00a0SO
\nGOOD<\/span>! . . .
\nCry cry cry crycrycrycrycrycrycry<\/p>\nWe stand in the midst of brilliance but all people are blind.
\nWe stand on a great road but no one is able to walk.
\nWe stand in the midst of a cacophony but all are mute.
\nWe stand in the midst of heat and thirst but all refuse to drink.<\/p>\n
In this historically unprecedented massacre only the spawn of dogs
\ncan survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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