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)

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[sovay]

But I'd read it if you wrote it.

Thanks. I can't have been the first person the idea occurred to!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Welks.

I don't reckon you could be the first to think of it, either. But I suppose it's possible that nobody has actually written it, or put it into print.

In which case you could be the first, yes?