this is spoken very rapidly, you probably need to follow the text.
Yucatán
When we visit the Yucatán
We'll be covered in coral reef
Along white sands where life began
We will rent a catamaran
Sail in Eden on a fig leaf
When we visit the Yucatán
And next to you, on a divan,
Dream the rain forest in relief
Along white sands where life began
Then in bars and dots of Mayan
Math, the stardome will be our fief
When we visit the Yucatán
We will carve pictographs of man
And woman on bark codices
Along white sands where life began
There no one, no one but you can
Name the sunrise of my belief
When we visit the Yucatán
Along white sands where life began.
5/6/01, a villanelle.
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