That Beautiful Country

Once

I was in a country

Its language all too clear

Now lodged in my memory

Twisted lime on the sore.

Terrain of drenched greens

This place of no shadows

Where the verbs and the nouns

Entwine in splendid verse

My laundry upon the rainbow

The moon yo-yoed thru' the day

My chores were just silly songs

My feet in warm and scented herbs.

One day

I fled that lovely country and

The sun that dreams away the years

Love, he said to me, in this place

You are cheaper than the whore.

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