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Rapid City Nowhere

Incheon 2016 I live in Incheon Part of the 3 million people who live here Mostly Koreans 90,000 foreigners though live here too My apartment is next to a park And I walk almost daily in the mountains Loosing myself in the hills Overlooking the airport The town has lots of restaurants Places too go Things to do And the airport is next door Soon there will be a casino complex opening up As they turn this quite suburban village Into a Mini-Las Vegas Complete with a strip Can’t wait Going to Seoul is a snap 50 minutes on the train And I am there Wherever I want to be Korea is turning out to be A good place too live So much better Than it was when I first arrived in 1979 And it was grim back then Now it is the toast of Asia And for that I am glad

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