I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land

[sovay]

Has anyone ever written a response to Kipling's "Mandalay"—either parodic or straight—from the perspective of Supayalat, the "Burma girl"? It seems inconceivable to me that someone should not have; the poem has been around since 1892 and it's famous. But I don't know whose collected poems I should be looking in. Friendlist?

"One gets used to the flying fishes, but that bloody dawn coming up like thunder is driving me crackers."
—Charles Addams (1977)

Comments

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

Maybe Sonya Taaffe should write that poem.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[sovay]

Maybe Sonya Taaffe should write that poem.

If my knowledge of late nineteenth-century Burma were not essentially nil . . .