Be Creative With Your Vacation Choice

Why don’t we go 
For a vacation to Mogadishu
This year
If you know where to find it on the map
You can raise vegetables 
In a minefield
Or attend the birthday party of a warlord
Machine gun fire for dessert
Half of Mogadishu is on the run
To a better life
Sometimes people return to their home
If they can find it 
In a crater
With a cluster bomb lawn
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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July 26, 2011 at 11:03 PM
sad and slightly cynical... sorrowful, too. Thanks for the write.
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