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Utopian

Alicia Ostriker 2016 7th Grade

My neighbor’s daughter has created a city

you cannot see

on an island to which you cannot swim

ruled by a noble princess and her athletic consort 

all the buildings are glass so that lies are impossible

beneath the city they have buried certain words

which can never be spoken again

chiefly the word divorce which is eaten by maggots

when it rains you hear chimes

rabbits race through its suburbs

the name of the city is one you can almost pronounce