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The situation of this poem
is my moving from Vancouver

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to Calgary, which is
across the Rockies.

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And going first to Courtney
on that Vancouver Island,

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that I told you about the
birthplace or not birthplace,

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but growing up a
place of my wife .

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And then moving to
Calgary with Earth,

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the ocean is the last thing
to think of leaving Vancouver

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to the island offshore
up to Sunshine Coast,

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where shells Sprout
out of the water,

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like, eggs in chicken nests,
but eaten all in an hour.

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The thing taken for granted
this time of the year,

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but think next year I will
live across the Rockies.

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Earth will be the largest
concern, a thin trickle

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of water cuts through
cow country mud,

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shrimp, sells for
$3 a pound, sunshine

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is dry with wide
White Mountain clouds.

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The plains are ever present
to the eye looking back

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smooth, as water.

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I don't know how much
shrimp costs here.

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But the most amazing thing
is that in Calgary, shrimp

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costs $3 a pound and in
Courtney it's $0.25 a pound.

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Luckily I don't eat it.

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