Flushed (#2)

[Erthona]

Flushed (#2)-edit1.001 shem
 
America, america, so sad to tell you,
#1 since Ulysses Grant, now you #2*.
Overtaken by China who is now #1,
no longer the dollar, but the yuan.
So when needing help, seek the US no more,
go to China now and knock upon our door.
 
 
*According to the IMF China just overtook the USA as the worlds largest economy.
No longer number one
 
–Erthona
 
2014

[shemthepenman]

Did this happen today? My, that is interesting.
With regards to the poem (I know, I know, this is in 'Fun'), 'over taken by china who is now #1, / no longer the dollar, but the yaun' it doesn't really make sense, does it?
Also, 'so when needing help, seek the US no more, / go to  china now and knock upon our door'...  firstly, 'WHEN needing help...' so why 'go to china NOW'? Broken down, this reads "when you need help go to china now". Furthermore, 'Go to china...' and then '...knock upon OUR door' if you are speaking from the Chinese point of view then shouldn't it be 'COME to China[...] knock upon our door.'?

Flushed (#2)
 
America, america, so sad to tell you,

#1 since Ulysses Grant, now you’re #2*.
Overtaken by China who is now #1,
no longer the dollar, but the yuan.
So when needing help, seek the US no more,
go to China now and knock upon our door.
 
 
*According to the IMF China just overtook the USA as the worlds largest economy.
No longer number one
 
–Erthona
 
2014

[Erthona]

Shem the,
Yes, according to the new article this has a link to above.

"yuan" the Chinese dollar, rhymes with "one", or "1".  

"WHEN needing help...' so why 'go to china " A bit tongue in cheek. Nobody really seems to like the US, they seem to think it is arrogant and overbearing (which is true), so now that China is the economic Superpower people have an alternative choice.

In terms of who is voicing this, if you look at the first line it gives a clue to that. "so sad to tell you". That is not the way a native English speaker would say that, so from the first it is an Asian voice (they frequently drop the pronoun) that is speaking, but pretending to be "English" and objective. This is something that is seen often with the propaganda that comes out of Totalitarian states pretending to be other than they are.Of course North Korea is the funniest. I just love how any citizen in North Korea with their leader's god's name must officially change theirs. What a fun country to live in. I think they just recently banned DVD players as they were smuggling DVDs in from South Korea, and of course the DVDs were  saying things that were of course not true. 

I decided to change "You're" in L2 to "you" to make it a little more obvious who is speaking. You get the credit for that. Thanks.

Dale