perhaps
next tuesday
christopher robin might address
the general assembly of the united nations
and ask
politely of course
if president bush could please withdraw the u.s. marine units
stationed in honduras
or at least request that mr. sanders stop strip mining
where the woozle wasn't
by afternoon tea
or 1997
whichever is most convenient (of course
piglet thought this would be a good thing
but what if no one listened (which seemed to be the way)
he would ask kanga
but she and roo were away
at a nuclear disarmament
and strengthening medicine convention in the south pacific
and besides
owl said that solo mothers were all
radical lesbian feminists
who were undermining the fabric of society
unlike mr sanders
whose open cast mine was all above ground
along with several thousand tonnes of debris (sort of overmining)
no one seems to listen anymore
said piglet sadly
to eeyore
who agreed and said that that's what he'd been saying all along
only
no one was listening at the time
Pooh 1996
eeyore sits
reading today�s paper
and sighs
again
at the fighting in the world
turning to piglet
who nibbles his haycorns
politely
he says
some people fight and die
and some people
just die
it�s like that
war
and he nods his grey head
and twitches his tail
pinned neatly behind
piglet knows
this is true
because rabbit
has said so
over quick cups of tea
and owl
has agreed
but christopher robin just shuffles his feet
and doesn�t say much of anything
so tigger
bounced
and said
to christopher robin
that he should stop mumbling
and write a letter
to president clinton
suggesting he stop bombing iraquis
and maybe ask
prime minister netanyahu
at afternoon tea
next Tuesday
to be nice to the palestinians
but then
tigger does politics
the way tigger climbs trees
so
eeyore turns over his paper
to the conveniently located entertainment section
at the back
and looks for a
movie
for piglet and he
Pooh 1997
piglet
put aside
the morning paper
having read the birth announcements -
(to elizabeth and josef
a girl
brighid eibhlis sofia
3.225 kg
52cms) kanga would be pleased -
and worried
about reports
of fires
burning
in the hundred aker wood
owl said that rabbit's friends and relations
had lit the fires
in protest
at mr sanders
who had intensififified his logging operations there
but rabbit said that was
piffle
and that sanders
was doing it himself
so he could open up the land
for grazing
whatever the reason
all that smoke
could not be good
for small babies' lungs
on the other hand
christopher robin was more upset
about the princess of wales
and was just about ready
to write a very stern card
to mr clinton
telling him
that Diana
would not have approved
of his refusal to sign the land mines accord
(maybe a nice blue one
with balloons
and clouds)
even though mr clinton had said
that it was because
his friends the south koreans
needed mines
to keep their neighbours out
this did not convince eeyore
who was looking even sadder
than when he last looked sad
(he had a picture of
Diana
and Theresa
on the wall of the kitchen
in his house at pooh corner
but now
they would never come to tea)
they could build a fence
he said
with a breathy sigh
or
maybe
just move somewhere else
like
bill's house
piglet wasn't so sure
that politics
or burn offs
were that simple
but eeyore
was so much bigger than him
and grey
and owl and rabbit
knew words
(like intensififified)
and maybe it would be best
if he left all of the difficult things
to christopher robin
so
piglet wrapped up his best haycorn
(in pink of course
for a girl)
and went to visit
the new baby.
