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Choking on Aspirational Hyphens
Our straw boss, now, she hyphenates her name
And there is something frightening about
Those faux dashes fastened between the nouns
Her proper nouns, as if they might slip loose
And fall onto the pages of Debrett’s
As isolated bits of DNA
Dropping their aitches and their gees, oh, please!
So tack that Burberry hyphen back again
Let no proletarian taint be seen -
Made in China becomes Fabrique en Chine
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