poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on Beslan by Ranger.

Ranger8 Jun 2007

We have a balalaika at home, a genuine Russian piece of rubbish. Whoever made it seemed to think it would be funny to string instruments with cheesewire. I don't feel I can change line 1 to the singular; it is in part deliberately ambiguous (talking to the terrorists or to God - either way 'balalaikas' works, I think) as it was being worked out as I went (4th, possibly 5th type ambiguity for those Empson disciples out there).