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Polynesia

I’ve got Polynesia
and they say

there’s nothing
they can do about it.

Medically defined, Polynesia
is: the chronic inability

to cross an endless ocean
in a rowboat.

The only known cure
is breadfruit.

And, so, fellow sailors
you begin to understand

my dilemma.

–September 18, 2018

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