There was an explorer named Christopher Columbus who entered the New World to fanfare of trumpets. He thought the Bahamans were Hindu Brahmins. His map wasn't so good as his compass.
Columbus Limerick
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Fred. Fred the dinosaur. He was one of those long-necked, humpy-backed, vegan models.

guardian dogs,
sculpted or painted: how do
they fool the spirits?

grand monuments,
overgrown with moss & weeds,
for Dead long forgotten.


boats rise & roll
with constant motion; as
gentle waves lap ashore.



water smashes shore,
rising as foam then raining
back down as liquid.

The sign read: "Flee Market,"
and so, of course, I fled.
The hawkers called to me
as I sped like hot lead.
From what I was fleeing,
I have no idea.
But I found a cheap chair
down at the IKEA.

white water churns
down the hillside into
a sprawling flood.