Mao ZeDong and Andy Warhol (or How Things Got Out Of Hand: All I Wanted To Do Was Float)

Chairman Mao
in His time
Loved to swim

The rivers in the south
Yanghtzi, Jiang
The river Li

A master at not sinking

Never too heavy to float
No think. No sink.
Never afraid

The Chairman, Mao
and Andy Warhol,Neither
Shades of neon Green

And Tangerine and Red, Glowing

Red Like Paint
And Party-line
Like Blood at Miss Chao's Suicide

Andy and The Chairman, live to entertain
Andy with his God-Phone
Beloved leader with his pen

Thrust forward, under banners, Revolution

(if you're curious...i was going to try and include some footnotes for clarification of some obscure things in this poem....but i have no idea how to include the little superscript numbers that denote a footnote to be read....so I'll just make mention of a few things for anyone that is curious enough to try and dig this stuff up.)

1) Don DeLillo - Mao II - a great novel....definitely worth a read...probably the single largest source of ideas for this poem...talks a lot about Chairman Mao, and a little on Andy Warhol (in particular MaoII by Andy Warhol).
2) Andy Warhol's pictures of Mao ZeDong
3) Mao ZeDong's Poetry...in Particular "Miss Chao's Suicide"
4) Mao ZeDong loved to swim....certain informational sites online tell of some of his swimming practices..quite amazing
5)The Electric Kool-Aide Acid test...very little on andy warhol...but maybe some similar Ideas??