Zugzwang
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The last frontier
is a turnip
under frozen mud.
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As this
generation
of journalists
brush up on their Russian-
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the spelling of Simferopol
and Sevastopol
,will for a time,
be known
on Twitter
- people will gaze down
on the Crimea
through Google Earth,
surprised that there is
somewhere
more east than the Balkans
in the West.
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A place
soon to be forgotten
like South Ossetia, Abkhazia,
or Sudetenland.
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