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Born

in the mid-twentieth century,

in an island of Asia,

and raised

during the so-called American Age,

unlike the others who flocked to the States,

I never made the journey.

Nor will I ever.

I’ll leave the world without seeing America,

although it surfaces time and again,

like a fleeting glimpse

of a giant fish,

showing a part of its body above the water.

It was not my dream.

Nor will it ever be.

By Mayumi Yamamoto

From: Japan

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