well caught, Barry, & more to come, too.
Doug
On 2-Dec-09, at 10:45 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> MEMBER [of the] BRITISH EMPIRE
>
>
> Make art about it
> but there's a possibility of redemption:
> employ myself [it's cheaper if I]
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 12-3-09 (12:43 AM)
>
> I attempted to carve 3 poems out of the talk of the UK<>Nigerian
> artist Yinka Shonibare
> MBE on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of his work at a
> museum in
> Washington DC. The other two still need some revision, but I'm not
> surprised that the
> ironic colonized play I detected years ago on first noticing that
> insisted-upon MBE was
> quickly embodied in this 3-line acrostic. "Sir", taken together
> with his given name,
> strikes an amusing note, and I wonder how many years that will take
> to materialize?
>
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