A Trip to Africa Without Leaving America

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    No I was not there but this is the perspective of a fictional someone who may have been.

    A Trip to Africa Without Leaving America

    T'was five days without electricity:
    No running water, no air conditioning,
    Food gone low, toilets are no more, heatless.
    A trip to Africa barely left home.

    FIRE! FIRE! Lights go out, engines failed. . .
    Cruise catastrophe, Triumph has fallen.
    Drifting, drifting for days; no help in sight.
    Tugboats taking too long, low on water.

    Stuck adrift in the Gulf of Mexico;
    Paradise to Hell in twenty minutes flat.
    Food from Elation yet no salvation. . .
    Best Valentine was dry land and clean rooms.

    Five days in Africa gives me insights,
    Into my fellow humans' birth right plights.

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    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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