Fine China

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Knot,

Thanks for the guest catch, it should indeed be plural. Also I like cutting the first line, good idea. I will give thought to your other suggestions.

Thanks,

dale

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Tim,

"I was thinking along similar lines after posting my previous comment; narrator seems a bit too detached."

It had been my experience (as a therapist, or the-rapist, for twenty years + years), that people with fetishes often act detached as it is part of the discipline, especially with the sadist, which this is alluding to in the poem. It's all about being in control; control and power is from where the pleasure stems, not the sensual pleasure of it. In this, the person demonstrates his mastery over the subject by allowing others to use "her". That's at least what I had in mind. There is no breakage, at least physically, because that is not from where his pleasure comes. He does like to baby her as that makes the mental pleasure all the much greater when he allows her to be used. The whole set of China is her, her body if you will.  So it is plural (someone asked about this). So those are my rationales, I am not saying they are correct, but that is my thinking behind this.  Maybe the poem does not work, or I need to refine it somewhat, but it was never intended to be sensual, at least not physically.

Thanks for your thoughts,

best,

dale

Makes sense and is perhaps that "otherworldly" sense I get about the narrator.  Otherworldly to me that is.  The poem definitely brings out his power trip.  He is a loving procurer.