Plantation

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road an endless slender fruit between

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fields kilometer after kilometer between

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Costa Rica Panama Bri Bri territory

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when I say empty I mean not one

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weed singing bird or scurry of fur

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each bunch bagged in blue plastic

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dangling conveyer wire snaking

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skeletal hoop after hoop to the head

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packing shed heaps of green moons

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swallowed in boxes then enormous

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corrugated metal containers voyage

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disgorge on opposite shores unload

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reveal peal devour sweet soft ubiquity