w dolinie rzeki niezapominajki
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		zakladamy ze w idaho.  no gdzies hen daleko swiezo
		z dala od gliwic i czestych stert wegla i rudy
		moze w chile moze w kaszmirze
		z dala od surowcowych koszmarow
		nazwalismy rzeke niezapominajka bo jak by tu zapomniec
		taka/ niebieska/ wsrod wlasnie niebieskich kwiatuszkow
		i zielonych traw snieznych gor.  moze wlasnie nie
		w ostrym chile.  moze wlasnie nie w szaroskalistym idaho.
		moze wlasnie w takiej polskiej polnej montanie.
		w dolinie rzeki missouri?

			Marek Lugowski
			25 wrzesien 1998
			Chicago, Illinois


		in the valley of the forget-me-not river
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		we assume it's in idaho.  well somewhere fresh and well away 
		away from gliwice and the common mounds of coal and ore
		maybe in chile maybe in kashmir
		far away from the raw materials horrors
		we named this river forget-me-not because how could we forget
		so blue amidst such very blue little flowers
		and green grasses snowy peaks.  maybe precisely not
		in the hardy chile.  maybe not at all in the rockygray idaho.
		maybe in that very polish plains country montana
		in the missouri river valley?

			Marek Lugowski, translated from the Polish
			by Marek Lugowski
			25 September 1998
			Chicago, Illinois