A doggerel series
about the countries of the world.
Switzerland.
At last! A place where I have
gone!
It seems so very long ago—
And I have written on and on
About some countries I don’t
know.
In 1999 I went—
Geneva was that special place—
To see the site of that event—
The birth of Frankenstein—the
space,
The villa where Lord Byron was—
The stories there about the
ghosts.
And I went there to see because
(As you can tell—my many posts)
It was my Mary Shelley phase—
And I was reading many books—
And going through that twisted
maze,
Obsessing over all: her looks,
Her life, and her career, and
all.
So there I was—Geneva—where
I saw that villa (had a ball),
Felt some ... adventure—very rare.
I loved my time in Switzerland—
The mountains, lakes, the
countryside.
Yes, all of it—so splendid,
grand.
And when it ended? Sniffed and sighed.
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