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A New Guise of Power: Xi, Putin & Kim in Beijing

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A dark green, serpentine train with a metallic sheen winds through a futuristic Beijing cityscape with skyscrapers.

New Guise of Power

A dark green olive train
slowly slithers,
armor-plated,
into Beijing

the year of the snake.

Kim’s attending
a massive parade –
a military
show of might,
show of strength.

A show starring
Putin, Modi and Xi Jinping
laughing

as they knock
Donald Trump
off the top of
an agenda

where there’s
no Gaza,
no Sudan,
no Haiti.
Blimey.

Kim’s arrived.

Tomorrow
will be a show,
a guise that
cannot disguise

the swirling
feeling that
the sand grains
of power
are shifting.

Nothing that is old
lodges for the new.
One authoritarian goes,
another comes,

but the earth
remains
everlasting.

Earth, sun, and moons dominate the background, while small suited figures stand on a rocky surface.

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