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Please don’t hit me, but is that one entitled ‘America’?
Maybe–America and Her Naysayers, perhaps.
In fact, I think I’ll just donate it to Rupert Everett.
Exactly. An interpretation of how Americans think non-Americans perceive their country?
Or maybe I’m just talking crap..?
I have read all those things said about the U.S.–some of them just yesterday–but I assume that obnoxious slurs everywhere else are like obnoxious slurs here–speakers generalizing from ignorance.
As for Mr. Everett, he’s been known to go on an anti-U.S. rant now and again. Since he’s allegedly quite intelligent, I guess he just despises us. =)
Sorry for the multiple edits for clarity and typos!
I think peoples from many nations generalise wildly about peoples from other nations (including me). In England, we hear a lot of anti-English rhetoric – most often from the Scottish, Welsh and Irish!
I think it means whatever it means to you. I posit that all writing is more interactive than a lot of writers want to believe–because every reader brings his/her own experiences or ideas to the meanings of words. In fiction, one reader may see a character as weak, but I may see her as good. An image in poetry may mean something entirely different to a reader from what I intended.
It frequently surprises me what people pick from the novels to ask about or talk to us about when they write or ask us questions at signings. Or what they say they love or made them laugh or cry, when we never saw that specific thing as having that particular impact.
Here, too, these poems–because people comment about them on FB as well as here, or even email me about them–people are affected enough to respond, but not always to the same poem, and not always publicly. It truly is a humbling experience–and writers really, really have to let go of what they write and let people see it as they will. Which can be very hard!
this reminded me of Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves – but every night the men would come around and lay their money down!
Well done Becks!
Thanks! I have a video of my dog Stevie doing a Cher impersonation to that song. It was a gift for Tim–Stevie loved him very much.
My response appears to have been lost in the ether. Maybe it’s in Egypt. Anyway, I said thanks and told you that our dog Stevie once impersonated Cher and lip synched this song in a video we made for Tim. He was her particular favorite.