Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

My first wife and I went on holiday
55 years ago, in Yugoslavia
The tourist industry was struggling
to find its feet, we stayed in a freshly
painted barracks, which caused some
jokes about what the buildings had
housed before us
I remember a forest and a lake, but I
must be mistaken, we went there to
swim in the sea
When I told my fresh-faced wife
I had found a German uniform button
She didn't believe me, but she
mentioned the incident seven years ago
During a divorce hearing, as proof
that I was not to be trusted.
I was a tourist in a country that no
longer exist, but in Belgrade, they fight
over issues not forgotten, how a land
was divided into mini-states that
hates each other

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