Placards vs. Teargas

                      

                                   

Then

Placards were our only weapons

Our hearts pounded in sedition

Feet moved in aggression

Our hearts

Seething in hot anger

Anger of a failed people

But placards

Cannot vie with teargas

We

            D          I           S          P          E          R          S          E          D

                        Like frightened

                        Black birds

Placards gently descending our hands