Who invigilates the invigilator?
An editor of course (or god). Confucius/Kong [Fu]zi seems far from home
among your rose bushes.
But a poem that takes me back.....
Glen
On 13/6/07 8:48 AM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Confucious waits outside
> among the roses
> waiting to see how
> his children fare
> in the exam they sit.
>
> Heads down, in
> unusual silence,
> forty students sit,
> concentrating on
> their compostitions:
>
> 'In Chinese tradition
> we ...' 'My grandmother
> keep chickens
> and feed them
> before herself.'
>
> They scratch
> absent mindedly
> at mosquito bites
> as a flouro tube
> hums and blinks.
>
> Even the sparrows
> in the smoggy
> daylight outside
> tweet in
> considerate tones.
>
> One girl in the front row
> wears an aqua-green
> singlet top, as modest as
> all Chinese, yet does
> reveal the start of
>
> the swelling of
> her small breasts.
> As she writes
> right-handedly
> sunlight lights
>
> the muscle at
> the side of
> her breast which
> flexes and relaxes
> with her script.
>
> Words are
> as physical as ever
> but here in this girl
> writing on 'Women
> in Today's China'
>
> a gentle
> sensuousness
> is awoken
> in this mature
> invigilator.
>
>
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