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NANCY MERCADO

No Where

    the Bush years

Is there some place left to go

When smells of a Third World War

Loom thick in the air

When birds abandon

The clammy gray city

Sunken in muddied snow

Is there such a place

Where commodity is dead

Where humans are devoid

Of hatred

Of arrogance

Of self-praise

Is there such a paradise left