30/30 Poem 1

This blog was created to post poems for the 30/30 challenge, to write and post a rough draft of a poem every day for the month of April, National Poetry Month. The first post (below) will be yesterday's poem as I was a day late starting a blog... and then we'll continue from here! Enjoy!

To Chairman Mao

I am the grass.
I have let myself down into the resistance to say "stay."
I will play to your posters sizes of buildings.
I will bow to your limo as it kicks dust
on the feet of your prisoner lovers
but I have laid myself so virus
that even after you have
heard radio talk of my
underground you
will never dig
out my last
riot.
I will be the sore spot in your eye,
the moon in your sky as you wish
to paint yourself with stars
I am the laughter at your funeral, the gravity
as you leap for pantheon
I am the humans buried in the Great Wall of China,
I am the bee stinging your fist and I am
never letting go.