- Non-Erotic Poetry
- No Great Leap Forward
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Píng sits on a Tiananmen square
as she has done for twenty-two years
selling watches and little red books.
She opened up an Arts and Design
shred of a thrown away New York Times
to read about a certain McQueen
"whose matching suits and platform boots,
grotesque with swollen giant hooves,
amaze in the world of fashion."
She couldn't quite toss it in the bin,
thinking of Mother and Niece Dao Ming,
one who's dead with Lotus Feet;
the other one runs cobblestone streets,
wheeling Píng in like a pinwheel in,
clickety clack clack clickety clack,
her hut in the belly of Beijing
where tonight government rice
and a potful of back alley tea
will help her sleep and once again dream
of Father's guǐ whose gossamer wings
smother a lotus blossom.
- COMMENTS
greenmountaineerover 11 years agoAuthorDesejo makes a good point about The New York Times in line 5.
It should read "Beijing Times," the actual name of a popular daily tabloid.
twelveooneover 11 years agoleaving out the jokes
irony and contrast is incredible
5ed
twelveooneover 11 years agoNo Great Leap Forward
platform boots,
grotesque with swollen giant hooves,
Lotus Feet;<dead center too
runs cobblestone streets,
wheeling Píng in like a pinwheel in,
clickety clack clack clickety clack,
the irony and contrast is incredible
gossamer wings, hmmm, pretends not to see
I'd say i was humbled, but hobbled makes a better pun and quickly asks is it iambic?
even if no one knows what lotus feet are, this is pretty good, but that really makes it,
needless to say a 5
tazz317over 11 years agoall thoughts and visions are of the exquisite, TK U MLJ LV NV
