Foreign Policy In Focus

Why some prefer fiction over fact
reform vs. so-called reforms
election vs. sham election
Myanmar vs. Burma
Political prisoners vs. those who have committed crimes
Democracy vs. discipline flourishing democracy

One anonymous commentator says
do Suu Kyi and Hilary have
the same hair stylist   what
they don’t realize is  Burma is
very hot  both climatically and
politically  pulled back hair
off the face  is best.
In the garden they hold hands like
long lost sisters.
In the background is Monica Lewinsky
and her blue dress  Bill’s heart attack
Aung San Suu Kyi’s middle brother who drowned
as an infant
her elder brother who sued her about the house
at the junta’s  instigation.

The private dinner is   on American soil
Did they cue each other
that they’d both wear  cream or off-white
or white?  For hope and change.  How many years is it
since  Suu had a sit down   western-style
formal dinner? 

In the garden it’s like Carnation Lily Lily Rose
Suu’s mother was born
a Christian and loved white amaryllis with green centers which
she fertilized with the same water hyacinth that may later have helped drown her son.
A junta newspaper once faulted Daw Khin Kyi with having had
both a Christian and a Buddhist funeral service.  What’s wrong with that?

The U.S. government plane flies into Naypyidaw (The King’s Royal City)
in the daytime, it’s not a night time airport
sleeps over in Thailand, then
picks up  the U.S. delegation
and the press corps again.

In the garden it’s carnation
lily lily rose.