30/30: Golden Shovel poem #16

source: China’s Gain Is Hardly Felt by the People 

We went down to the beach to see China’s

sea yacht. We bet that it would gain

first place in the first heat. It is

majestic in its red and yellow glory, hardly

making any right turns. Though it felt

soft in the evening, we traveled by

helicopter to land on the deck, but the

cheers were missing from or for the people.

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.