Poetry Friday

[reasie]

Gifts to the Ancestors

Comments

[deafelis]

Hehehe. :) Very cute, in that comforting 'old people are cute because we presume them to be so innocent' sort of way. I like it; though I wonder what about a horse would make it useless, even in the afterlife?

[deafelis]

Wow, that was an odd way for me to try to phrase a question, wasn't it?

[reasie]

I guess I decided the horses were obsolete because they all have cars... and they might get more horses than anyone can ride. I dunno if anyone has ever done a statistical analysis of the paper objects burned for ancestors at Chinese new year. What's the most popular gift for the dead? For some reason my brain said "horses".

[deafelis]

Ah, thanks. In that context it makes sense. And I guess for some reason, knowing that they were getting cell phones didn't equate to knowing that they would have cars. Silly me. :)

[gwacie]

I like the line "Bam! Lincoln Continental." :)