Indeed.
I mean no criticism of your own skills in this. We just need someone VERY
skilled and VERY nasty
L
On 14 March 2016 at 17:13, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, L.
>
> Dryden, Pope, or Swift seem needed in this case.
>
> M
>
> On Mar 14, 2016, at 10:10, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > not at all bad
> > though he deserves great venom
> >
> > not that I fancy the alternatives much
> >
> > well done, our kid
> >
> > L
> >
> > On 14 March 2016 at 17:00, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mar 14, 2016, at 9:55, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>> I wonder if Donald Trump writes poetry
> >>>
> >>> L
> >>>
> >> I’ve just written one for him -
> >>
> >> as part of my sequence ‘My Chinese Phase’…
> >>
> >> Max
> >> in Seattle
> >>
> >> 11. A Merchant’s Dream of Power
> >>
> >> An upstart merchant fancied himself
> >> chief minister, nay emperor!
> >> intrigued, and strutted about loudmouthed.
> >>
> >> When I’m in charge, he said, our border
> >> will have a Great Wall built, to keep
> >> out barbarian invaders.
> >>
> >> Those already here disguised
> >> as citizens my men will bustle away.
> >> Away with their wives and children!
> >>
> >> They take our jobs and wreck our schools
> >> and never seem to learn Chinese.
> >> My China has no room for mosques.
> >>
> >> My soldiers will be trained how best
> >> to torture suspect enemies and
> >> prisoners; my bombers will unload
> >>
> >> our state-of-the-art bombs on our
> >> enemies’ hideaways - we know where
> >> they are, disguised as hospitals.
> >>
> >> Foreign devils will now trade with us,
> >> on our terms. Losers - the idle poor
> >> sick of China - are multiplying:
> >>
> >> sweep away benefits and supporters.
> >> China’s greatness comes from its merchants;
> >> I will give them scope to make us great.
> >>
>
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