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Poem of the Month
Mermaid on the Rooftop by Dexter Dunphy
There’s a mermaid
on the rooftop.
She has left the Chao Praya River,
drifting plastic, waterweed,
leaked oil from longtail boats,
noisy tugs pulling lines
of old rice barges
stuffed with waste.

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