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<p class="has-text-align-center">The major events in this country at the bottom half of the year 2020, translated…</p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Written for the March of November 22<sup>nd</sup> of 2020, for Freedom’s Sake</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center">Translate…</p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>We’re All Already Under the Chill Effect</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Sealing Up the Unawakened Voices at the End of Summertime</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Used the 50,000 Members of the Public Who Marched</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Waving Banners of Assortment of Sizes, Colors</em></p>



<p>here is the people of Hong Kong, marching the streets on the matter of sending their convicted persons to China to be &#8220;tried&#8221;&#8230;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_xl/public/image/2019/12/RTS2US7Q.jpg" alt="查看來源圖片" /><figcaption>photo from online</figcaption></figure>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><em>Volunteers, Migrant Workers, Laborers, the Retired Government Officials, Cramped Up the Streets</em></p>



<p><em>We’d, Walked out a Question Mark that’s Three Kilometers Long</em></p>



<p><em>Are We, Swine???</em></p>



<p><em>Forced to Consume the Poisons of Ractopamine</em></p>



<p><em>The Birth Rate Reduced to the Last in the World</em></p>



<p><em>While Insomnia, Dialysis, Runs First</em></p>



<p><em>Are We Still Going to, Ingest the Poisons of Ractopamine??</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Before the Pork are Imported, We’re, Being, Silenced, We aren’t Allowed to Say</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>That We will Be Ingesting Two Carcinogens, and Murdering the Next Generations:</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Spending Too High a Price on the Weapons, Eating the Poisons from the Threats of War</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Using the Fastest Efficiencies that the Government Uses, to Ingest the Poisons from Pork with Ractopamine</em></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://pgw.udn.com.tw/gw/photo.php?u=https://uc.udn.com.tw/photo/2020/12/18/realtime/9534013.jpg&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sw=0&amp;sh=0&amp;sl=W&amp;fw=800&amp;exp=3600&amp;w=930" alt="查看來源圖片" /><figcaption>the legislators against the import of pork with ractopamine here&#8230;photo from online</figcaption></figure>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>He Said East, but I Can’t Say it Like Him</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>You’d Pointed and Misnamed Something, and I Have to, Say that Black is, White</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Keeping Our Eyes Open, Stating how the Sun Glowed Green</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>Because of Environmental Issues</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Reefs Turned Black Now, the Bulldozers Working Away</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>We Ranked Top with the Carbon Emissions</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>We Wear Dual Layers of Masks to Prevent the Spread of MERS</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Politicians’ Lies Wreaked of a Yellow Sort of Halitosis</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-right"><em>The Marches Will Eventually Come to a Halt, But, the Biggest Question</em></p>



<p>and globally, there&#8217;s&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;MERS-CoV</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/d-illusttration-chinese-coronavirus-covid-sars-virus-mers-cov-ncov-stop-world-pandemy-176057305.jpg" alt="查看來源圖片" /><figcaption>the world wide, pandemic!  Image from online</figcaption></figure>



<p><em>Stays in the Hidden Screens, in the Skies, in Our, Shadows</em></p>



<p><em>The Killing of the Autumn Execution, Driving Toward the Coldness of the Springtime</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center">And so, this, is what the government had done, for a whole year, it’d, disregarded how the imports of pork with ractopamine are bad for its people, because it’s sucking up to the U.S., and, disregarded how the pollution are killing the land, and the government still does NOT have the best interests of the people in mind, this government only thinks about itself, and, it’s, voted by the “majority”, and the majority of those who voted are greens, while those who are, blues, don’t go to the polls at all…</p>
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