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After Civil War and Tsunami, floods again,
the worst in 25 years, which recalls more
or less the war’s length, and the Tsunami
won’t return for another hundred. Where
will we molder then? Youth are rising
but falling before English speed, This
banal combination of death and black
arm bands, a poet and all the diaspora
unable to carry a blanket or a lamprey
to the damned, who have lost photos
and cutlery, and the great aunt who
could not climb to the roof in time…
reminiscences running in the family,
an earlier flood recorded by
an older poet. Now it is our time.
Boys and girls united from North
to South. Have you noticed helping
hands crossing ethnic lines? At least
fifty percent of us want to go
beyond ancient bitterness and sing
the anthem in all our languages. And
young men and women, our hopes
and dreams, they will learn to bat
in foggy conditions. I know they will,
and we, the nation in exile and at home,
will pull out arrack and raise
our glasses to the new, independent,
third path we have built, brilliantly
playing India and China back
and forth, while the West has
turned our favored Uncle, again.