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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