Geography Nut
GEOGRAPHY NUT
Geography - don’t get me started
Places well-known and some uncharted
River, country, mountain and town -
Direction - Alaska up, Australia down
Any place in the world
When that map’s unfurled
Wiggly spaghetti lines of different colour
Attract me to all land, even polar.
Old map torn, burnt plan or diagram
Breaks my heart, sobs my diaphragm:
It’s a place that’s blotted out, destroyed
And no further help can be deployed.
Maps take me where I cannot go
I can stay there a day or a year or so.
Trip around the Andes in Patagonia?
Oh yeah, I know it’s a phoney, yeah…..
But the world is larger than my travel budget.
A plane won’t fly for free, they won’t budge it.
My situation may seem hapless
Until I open up my giant atlas.
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