#title Slowly They Go
#author anon57
#SORTauthors anon57;
#date 2018
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/400-spring-2018/slowly-they-go]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2018-05-09
#notes Fifth Estate #400, Spring, 2018


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I expected click-click-click
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<quote>
of handcuffs binding wrists,
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<quote>
eyes red with pepper spray,
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<quote>
a haze of tear gas fogging streets,
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<quote>
black ‘copters rotoring the sky,
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<quote>
and cellphone vids of troubled days.
</quote>

<quote>
Too late I realized the cunning gist
</quote>

<quote>
of protests that shimmer on-screen.
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<quote>
Slowly they disappear from the net-
</quote>

<quote>
first the anarchists, then the homeless Vets.
</quote>

<quote>
Facebook and Google delete the rest.
</quote>

<quote>
No bullet, no blindfold, no last cigarette.
</quote>

<quote>
anon57 writes anti-authoritarian, anti-racist, pro-privacy poems from Suburbia USA. He explores concerns regarding growing military adventurism, surveillance, mainstream propaganda, colonialism, and police state tactics.
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