In reply to revolutionary avarice:
constitutions are history’s special tulips
tender powers to behold but destined to wilt
if the people do not water them with justice
an autocrat is surely a despicable gardener
but a wrathful people are the …

Today is the second national day of mourning declared by the interim government. neweurasia’s resident poet, Rubaiyat, reflects upon the new day.

A few lines of verse to the people of Kyrgyzstan:
blood tulip, bloom of instability
like the seasons you ritually revolt
turn the sun, from autocratic winter
to democratic spring and back again
all these fires, these gunshots, these wounds
history …