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Monday, June 04, 2007

A Balkan state

A Balkan State

Montenegro,
lovely name,
sounds
Spanish,
yet it ain’t.
Should I go there?
Why?

Men, with guns,
remember
century
old slights,
when not smuggling
cigarettes

A black mountain,
a pass
and a stream,
everyone here
is related
to the president

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