bo peep

Fiasco wins the non-existent prize for figuring out the puzzle I posted on Tuesday.

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep
And can not tell where to find them.
Leave them alone,
And they will come home,
And bring their tails behind them.

This piece was created by Xu Bing, a Chinese artist. He wanted to make users of Chinese characters think about their script in another way - he wanted them to stop seeing things with an exclusively Asian eye. It works in the other direction as well, though, making those of us who do not read Chinese characters think about how much we automatically attribute to something an "Asian" quality without actually looking closely.

I'll put a shorter one up that I found, but now that you know how it works, I'm not going to post the answer. This one is a quote from Mao.