It bothered her that they had used an adult
Actress to dub into Dutch
The lead character in TV’s Pippi Langkous
The screeching and squawking mockery
Of girlish speech
Gave her headaches
And made the paint peel
The Puritan Roundheads of the English Civil War
Smashed the faces off statues in churches
She felt she had been cheated out of art
When she got home
From her latest binge on sacred buildings
She imagined how the faces might have looked
At night they ghosted their way into her dreams
Where the 17th century Taliban couldn’t reach
She was pissed off whenever the BBC warned her
A programme contained strong language
She was as averse to euphemism as she was to cheap stair carpets
She would not let the expressions ‘drie keer niks’
Or ‘doe even normaal’ pass her lips
She had four pets:
A monkey named Idiom
A snake called Slang
A parrot, Paradox
And a pig by the name of Ham
Trapped in the web of love
They co
-existed
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