X.P. This poem carries irony with a touch of humor. The Mao’s image calls for a comment! His unleashing of a decade of violence and destruction - the Cultural Revolution- was real and bloody. It left a legacy of a wounded generation carrying betrayal, fear and distrust, still echoing. The appropriation by “Maoists” abroad in the sixties, playing revolution remains deeply problematic.
This is so powerful. I saw a play in SF about the Vietnamese refugees and the generational split with the parents who gave up so much to fight. In the play one father said to his son, something like, if you say the war is wrong you discount my sacrifice. Things are so much more complicated than they seem from a distance.
Yes!
Love this. Thank you for the education.
Those “ revolutions” were not real…ask your neighbor or anyway who escaped
Anyone!
X.P. This poem carries irony with a touch of humor. The Mao’s image calls for a comment! His unleashing of a decade of violence and destruction - the Cultural Revolution- was real and bloody. It left a legacy of a wounded generation carrying betrayal, fear and distrust, still echoing. The appropriation by “Maoists” abroad in the sixties, playing revolution remains deeply problematic.
Indeed, and thank you for saying so.
Beautiful work, X. P.
Thanks, as always for the link(s)
This is so powerful. I saw a play in SF about the Vietnamese refugees and the generational split with the parents who gave up so much to fight. In the play one father said to his son, something like, if you say the war is wrong you discount my sacrifice. Things are so much more complicated than they seem from a distance.