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If you feel like China breaking, feel like laughing, break China laughing (old Jefferson airplane lyric)

China, to the West, is not a
Place we think of, if at all –
Warriors in terracotta
And the Great Big Firewall,
Wobbly bikes against its fascia.
Any argument’s suppressed –
Just a corner of old Asia,
Better not to be its guest.

Anybody want to visit
Such a run-down caliphate?
Men in suits. Not pretty is it,
Just another tyrant state:
More coal than the C19,
Belching in the grimy sky –
Top tie-maker. Are we green?
Not with envy, we reply.

Hear the tranquil, melancholic
Machine-gun shots if criminal –
If old China seems bucolic,
The thought must be subliminal:
All that China has is masses,
Size and space and giant bulk.
Sorry, Chinese mules and asses,
We’re all in a giant sulk.

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If you feel like China breaking, feel like laughing, break China laughing (old Jefferson airplane lyric)

The Chinese official newspaper has cruelly described the UK as ‘merely a country of old Europe with a few decent football teams’. Heavens above! (And also, which football teams can they possibly be referring to?)
 


4 December 2013

POETRY KIT WEBRING

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