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The Happiest Country on Earth

from Towns by Grandpa Rosevelts

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Split city, sprung from straddled Limfjord,
you industrialize Denmark in brick across the watery scar
cutting Nørresundby from south-side Aalborg.
American me wants to toss Legos to this fjord,
like tea. Like childhood tea party, I will
leget godt—play well in rebellion.

I will dye your fisker, fish, rainbow with
the plastic brick you’re so little known for,
the one you refuse to medium
Ai Weiwei’s art with, shying away
from the rebellion into which children eventually grow.

I wonder which side of this fjord
you seed with the seedy.
Which soil nourished your neo-Nazi government?
Where is the fig tree you use to fuel Syrian-refugee fire?
Is it the same cemetery in Nørresundby
where your Viking ancestors rot?

Or south, beneath Jomfru Ane Gade:
the longest bar street in Northern Europe.
Do you ever worry its cobblestones will be worn to bre
ak, and that you will be swept into the rushing
aquafer of your alcoholism hidden beneath?

My dear happiest country on Earth, I only ask
your kærlighed, your coziness, your kartofler.
Smiling, I ask that you mix ink in warm blood
against cold winter, and etch your cozy hygge into
the base of my neck. Fill me with your culture,
please,
I need a way to fight
my fermented darkness through your
twenty-hour long nights.

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from Towns, released November 20, 2015

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Inspired by intelligent alien friends who like to study the American south-west (because tradition dictates some things), but also north-west, we like words and strings and ambient things, but not fluctuating vocal tones, because then our aliens would go have other, more monotone friends. ... more

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