A doggerel series
about the countries of the world.
Armenia.
There’s
Turkey to the west, and it
Has Georgia
to the north. And hard
To spell are
other ones that fit
Her other
borders. And once scarred
By
genocide—the nineteen-teens.
And
conquerors have come and gone:
They work their ways; they vent their spleens—
They work their ways; they vent their spleens—
Imposing,
stealing. Might and brawn.
But
independence came at last
In 1991.
Since then
Some
struggles—but they have held fast,
And hopes are
higher than they’ve been.
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