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am_Unition · 2544 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones
Commentary: OK. Poems: Incredible. :( they called it a screw I swallowed industrial wastewater and unemployment forms bent over machines, our youth died young I swallowed labor, I swallowed poverty swallowed pedestrian bridges, swallowed this rusted-out life I can’t swallow any more everything I’ve swallowed roils up in my throat I spread across my country a poem of shame I can only imagine how much more beautiful it reads in the native tongue.I swallowed an iron moon