china, taiwan <br />buffalo and calf <br />chained, pulled <br />by a white rope <br />worked on by a dwarf's sons <br />beef fed bigger, smarter <br />the emperor's sons <br />sit on nails <br />five thousand year old <br />divine nail chairs <br />that fueled revolutions <br />mental, spiritual, power <br />invasions, conquests <br />the calf runs adrift <br />lost in neighbourhood <br />become centre of stakes <br />a world divided <br />with the Chinese divides <br />sons of emperors <br />still pulled by <br />a white rope and <br />dwarf's smart descendents <br />plagued, played, <br />arousing a warring spirit <br />a 5,000 year old warring spirit <br />fueled by a middle kingdom<br /><br />john tiong chunghoo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-white-rope-and-a-dwarf/
