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The Sound of Towns

THE SOUND OF TOWNS


Announcing  my address in Gateshead
Usually started me feeling half dead.
The flames crackled as the Detroit  River  burned to Toledo
While my soft guitar chords echoed over  Rio de Janeiro.
But I couldn’t help but  dance the samba 
When reciting my address in Cochabamba. 
Now I wanna live back in Jujuy with the  mountains near -
Address sounds like a football cheer.
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NOTES
Gateshead   - a dreary UK  industrial city of my childhood
Jujuy  -  high in the foothills  of   the Andes in Argentina
Cochabamba   -  Bolivia – the Garden City 
Rio   de   Janeiro  - Brazil – football and music

9  April  2021

Copyright © Sidney Beck

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