Today the sky is so big and so blue you can
Fall into it, the sweet peas are fading
From the heat, grown men take up fencing
Diagonal lunge after divorce papers are
Signed or missionary work in the mountains
Of Cameroon, you learn to iron everything
Even your underwear, protection from parasites
The lush green ninety four percent humidity, they
Keep the premies three to an incubator, you are thirsty
Wet always, happy as the Africans read the Bible for
The very first time in the alphabet we created
For them, Jesus speaks in our tongue! Celebration ensues.
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