She says, ‘I want to go to That Mysterious Country.’
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The whole class wants to go there as well.
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But what if she arrives there, and nobody’s waiting?
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What if her suitcase full of memories gets lost in the mail?
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‘But nothing gets lost there, it’s so organized.’
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‘Then I know what will happen.
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I will exit the airport, ride a shiny vehicle for hours,
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While everyone takes pictures with wide smiles,
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And suddenly, boom!
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My suitcase full of memories will fall on my head!’
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‘Don’t say such nonsense!’
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She dreams of visiting That Mysterious Country,
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Under the sole condition of having Somebody waiting.
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‘Somebody?’
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‘Yes, don’t you remember him?
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‘The one with the perfect smile and the crooked teeth,
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The one with heart-shaped lips and shiny brown hair,
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With beautiful long hands to play guitar,
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And eyebrows like brush strokes.’
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The whole class wants to go there,
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But she’s scared.
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Not only her suitcase will fall.
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Buildings and cherry trees and miniature cars
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And poles and computers and ducks and fish
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And fried rice and ice cream and lacquer boxes
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And microphones and ancient houses and saltwater
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Will fall onto her.
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‘The world must have become one huge memory,’
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A passerby will mutter
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As blood escapes the amorphous flattened remains.
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