Get ready, get ready for a new country, no more of this Paradise anymore, they say when they steady us on our feet. They say Paradise like they will never say it again: the Pa part sounding like it is something popping; letting their tongues roll a while longer when they say the ra part; letting their jaws separate as far as possible when they say the di part; and finally hissing like a bus’s wheels letting out air when they say the se part. And once they say it like that, Pa-ra-di-se, we know that it is a place we will soon be leaving, like in the Bible, when those people left that terrible
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