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MAP OF EUROPE - OBJECTUM SEXUAL * O coastline with cool expanse of blue Atlantic Your curves and indentations drive me frantic. Sometimes thrust out peninsularly; Sometimes studied docilely and scholarly; Land stretching from White sea and Iberia To Black Sea and Siberia. O Europe, my virgin obsession geographical Is verging on possession sexual. Other continents are jealous - Africa is so island-poor, so peninsula-penniless, And of rivers, capes and bays it has many less: It would give a pretty penny to have just one Iberia, Jutland, or Scandinavia To excite its smooth coast and other geographic behavior. Australians would love islands with romantic names Capri Lesbos Rum Eig Frisian Or an archipelago-infested sea like the Aegean. South Americans cry themselves to sleep at night because they lack Such Nordic coastal features as Trondheim or Skaggerak Beijing would give all the tea in China because she must Satisfy her desire for an Italian-shaped peninsula, a bootless lust. Of course Asia feels no envy, for it has kukri-shaped Kamchatka And the only large island in the world, Sumatra, Which rhymes with the best singer in the world, Sinatra. This Map of Europe is something I just have to possess. My life is incomplete without its caress. If I didn’t have it, my world would be a mess. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. NOTES 1 * “Objectum Sexual” is defined on GOOGLE as erotic love towards an object of any sort. 2 N. B. This poem is purely fiction
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