Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Where Hell Would Freeze (draft)

He was born in the Congo
which once belonged to the King of Belgium
she was a missionary's daughter
in what was once called Rhodesia

In sophomore year they met in college
he studying to be an accountant
she wanting to be a tooth doctor
there they wed where they had met
in Black historical college, city of Atlanta
state named for English monarch, one of many Georges
Atlanta, Georgia where The Center for Disease Control safely stores
the Seven Plaques of Egypt and worst ---
virus capable of eating the poles and the earth's core
Atlanta hometown to the Cable News Network
which Bin Laden watches from his penthouse rock


Eiffel Ungali the accountant and Murray his dental wife
live presently in Minnesota with their kids of perfect teeth
Minnesota is where the great Mississippi River springs
it's a state rich in dairy where for the most part people are friendly
and not as dark as you'd expect
considering they are Lutherans
in a land that hardly thaws

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