Hi Christina,
Wicked!
Way wicked!!
And gob-smackingly so!!!
"... and his thoughts turned to the economy" shows how serious an insight
this poem really is!
(Have you mentioned these gnomes before? Somewhere in my mind I've an
inkling I already know about them?)
Bob
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: Made in China
>Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:29:53 EDT
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> Made in China
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> My nun has a vast army of sisters
> clutching bibles to plastic habits.
> Wind her up: she'll march across your chest
> spitting fire as her heart wheel
> strikes the flint in her larynx.
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> Fook Hu made her: one idle afternoon
> soon after his trip to Xi'an when
> his thoughts turned to the economy
> and long rows of Polish garden gnomes
> waiting to invade Berlin.
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> christina fletcher
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