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for Benin

Well, that’s how I feel.
            I’d like to be

  Norway, land
of A-frames

                                    Land

of the midnight sun

            all over the horizon, the water
     spilling out
like cod liver oil

billions of silver-scaled fish swarming to get in, get out; no-
            body wants

to be landlocked. Nobody wants to be                       Switzerland.

It just happens.

© 2007 Claudia La Rocco