Once Upon An Island – The First
there are fish with green bones
and a holiday for flying kites
there are mountains no one lives on
and towns full of empty houses
there are men who spend all night alone on the sea
and men married to their bottle of ouzo
there are children playing in the streets
and mothers who know somebody is always watching
there are gulls who fly high for the fun of it
and roaming donkeys that nobody owns
there are edible greens covering the floors of the olive groves
and men and women who gather them after the rains
there are young men who dance on the backs of horses
and young men who die in cars
there are sheep with bells that wake you when they pass in the night
and turtles hibernating under the wild bushes
there are inane television shows
and radio channels without advertizements
there are goat cheeses and sheep cheeses and cheeses of both
and breads baked in wood-burning ovens to eat them with
there are shellfish who spend their lives spinning a hole into stone
and a spiky sea creature eaten raw that's said to be an aphrodisiac
there are buses from the port town to bring the children to school
and holidays when the women shine
there are handsome young men who give you their hearts
and dealers of drugs who harm everyone they touch
there are days when the sky returns your love multiplied
and days when without wood you'd die
there are little stone houses tucked into the sides of mountains
and some of them have poets inside
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