This+Poem+is+not+Made+in+China+Yet

=By David Hallet =

we…wish-list…big fish,

 big brother, biggest loser, big survivor,

 Big Idol, Big Prawn, Big Banana…

 and the little battler…the sausages are burning

 the books burning, the mosque burning,

 the city smouldering on the midday news

 the big screen whispering icons:

 ‘to Volvo or not to Volvo, that is the croissant’ –

 and tonight’s viewing is déjà vu-déjà vu-déjà vu…

 there’s a billion starving versus a billion obese racing together –

 god has left the auditorium (as if he was never there)

 left to the alchemy of money-lenders

 left to the suits of the dogs of the gods of war

 (always the war) in their spin of fear, the oil slick as blood,

 the dip-stick stuck deep in the side of a Saudi prince…

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> and tonight’s viewing (said the president) is:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> CSI New York, Law & Order, Cold Case,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders, Missing Persons Unit,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> Prison Break, Border Security, Justice League, Medical Emergency,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> Entertainment Tonight and Good Morning America –

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> the numbers begin to dance…this poem is not made in China, yet

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> but the pen, the paper, the cup, the candle, the desk, the chair,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> the shoes, the clothes, the paper-clip, the toothpick, even the chopstick

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> made in China – we microchip dogs, soon we microchip everyone

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> (chipping away at ourselves) as David Attenborough could say/ would say:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> they raped them & they cooked them & they ate them…

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> form a queue…the bombs keep falling on the Holy Land,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> church bells ringing with the bombs (god has definitely left the auditorium);

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> the Saturday night bones are dancing

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> the metal detectors are going off all over the world –

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> mission statement…should be:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> soft rain/ thousands of kisses/ first birdcall, sunrise, sunset,

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> mist that fills the forest/ moon sailing and the milky way

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> milking across the night

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> and not the nightly news (and love)

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> this poem is not made in China, yet.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Published 2010