Falling In the River Inn

Is Simbach Austrian? Is Braunau German?
Buda’s bumpy, Pest 
is flatter.
The Danube does it best.
Is history a palimpsest?
(Think Durer, think Blatter).
And spare me the sermon.
I forget the rest.
Does any of it really matter?
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