tank person


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Called a man, then, I

Changed, fluid, freely flowing. Now

I am Tank Person.

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Omm

from conversations with my friend

Yu Yan Yip

 

photo by freddie

tank man (unknown rebel)

I stood up to you,

Then disappeared.

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Even now

                                up to you

I stand

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Not invisible,

Although unseen, unknown, still

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I stand up to you.

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31 years on.

We greet and salute you, Yu Yan Yip—and all who stood and stand up to faceless tyranny.

Peace.

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freddie omm

still


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Decades pass by, while

Moment of eternity

Stands still, like a tank.

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Omm

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Photos of tank in Ukraine taken by Dmitri Bukhantsov in February 2022 and added, with thanks to Dmitri, to this post later.