The True Cancer: The Fate Of Liu Xiaobo

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Liu Xiaobo: I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement(2009)

They worship him, those Occidental lands,

in their eloquent rhetoric

of pre-obituaries they are pouring out;

but not one trade deal will they cancel,

not one signature will be left unsigned

for his sake. Words are

cheap, cheap and plentiful. Actions,

actions carry a price that goes unpaid.

Cancer will eat him, there will be

the most modest of funerals,

and the Occident will claim him a martyr to democracy

and a hero of freedom, and then,

and then they will take their pens

and sign the trade deals and the business agreements,

there will be handshakes

and "The question of Liu Xiaobo was raised in private conversation

with the president, the prime minister, the minister..."

26.06.2017