{"id":4006,"date":"2022-01-02T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenoh0908.kro.kr\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2022-01-02T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:47:34","slug":"mili-salt-pepper-birds-and-the-thought-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenoh0908.pe.kr\/blog\/quotes\/mili-salt-pepper-birds-and-the-thought-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mili – Salt, Pepper, Birds, And The Thought Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bamboo basket, reflector, working brakes
Never forget your helmet, trusty Mips
See ya, I’m off to the morning market<\/p>

Thirty-three lemons
A healthy-looking chicken
And a dozen of free-range eggs
Thanks, keep the change
Whistling a tune, pffhw
I’m home<\/p>

What a perfect day
I hanged the sheets out in the yard
Oiled up my baking tray
Thinking about you, Mother<\/p>

To recite her famous words
All you need are salt and pepper
To taste the happiness of life forever<\/p>

Then the moon rose
And creamed lemon chicken roasted in the oven
Men in black kicked down my front door
Hey! Who? What? Whay?<\/p>

“You violated acy 617 – Illegal Thoughts”
“You’re under arrest”
We all know the real answer was
“You shouldn’t have been born the way you are”<\/p>

And we’re packed in a cargo choo-choo train
Squeezing against the bodies similar to me
With tears rolling down our faces
We began to sing<\/p>

“They can never take anything from our souls”
Louder and louder
“They can never take anything from our souls”
Louder and louder<\/p>

They shaved off my hair
Fed me a foreign language
Looking on the bright side
(Yeah), I’m alive
I still remember all the people I love<\/p>

So come at me, and do your worst
All this pain and suffer
Don’t stand a chance against our iron hearts<\/p>

As the morning came and went (Ah)
And the people stayed and left (Ah)
And the earth went ’round and around
The stars never looked so kind (Ah)<\/p>

The wind ever so fragrant
Through the tiny slit on the wall
Every night I was invited to watch
A theater played by moonlit birds<\/p>

They spread their wings
Carrying our silenced voices
Singing our historic songs
Letting everyone in the future know
That we existed<\/p>

What a perfect night
I felt the urge to write a book
Pass down my life
Until recently, time didn’t feel so fast<\/p>

With my bloody fingertip
All I needed were sticks and paper
I started to write, poems after poems<\/p>

Then the moonlit birds came to meet me
They stole the key and opened the gates
We’re fianlly free
I picked up my bicycle
Riding home to Mother<\/p>

Writing my delusion world
I saw a version of heaven
Where I sat in my yard
Reading a paperback print of my book<\/p>

On a hillside, your little fist clutching sweat
Walking to the memorial park
You put down freshly cut white chrysanthemums
A former Thought Police lowers her hat
Children lying on the grass
Singing to poems written by me<\/p>Mili – Salt, Pepper, Birds, And The Thought Police, Lyrics<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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