Hate 'selfie' Poem by Douglas Scotney
Hate 'selfie'
During the nuclear bomb tests of the fifties,
well-after a word in The Maldives
lent itself to all belts of coral
enclosing a central lagoon,
the 2-piece beachwear, the teeny-weeny,
landed on the atoll Bikini.
To an equally well-named atoll today,
Palmyra perhaps,
down on which a selfie did touch,
would I say, 'Thank you so much! '
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: clothing,language,nuclear
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
that word = atholhu, meaning administrative division (acc. to Wiki) .
...One yachtsman who conducted geological surveys of the island had this to say about Palmyra: The island is a very threatening place. It is a hostile place. I wrote in my log: "Palmyra, a world removed from time, the place where even vinyl rots. I have never seen vinyl rot anywhere else." Palmyra will always belong to itself, never to man. It is a very forbidding place."
...One yachtsman who conducted geological surveys of the island had this to say about Palmyra: The island is a very threatening place. It is a hostile place. I wrote in my log: "Palmyra, a world removed from time, the place where even vinyl rots. I have never seen vinyl rot anywhere else." Palmyra will always belong to itself, never to man. It is a very forbidding place."
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