1. 1962: Mochtar Lubis by John Simmons

    I imagine you

    an Indonesian dragon:

    your words the dragon’s

    teeth that sprang fully

    armed from the writer’s

    mouth.

    Your dragon’s eye

    saw things your keepers

    preferred to keep

    hidden.

    They blinked first but

    dragons don’t blink:

    you spat words, like

    teeth, through prison

    bars.

    The cage kept springing

    open.



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