by Julien Aklei

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-Book One: The Ohio River-

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10.

Indiana

No baby animals have been spotted
on the banks of the Ohio. No candles
line its borders and no famous ghosts
have been known to frequent it.

No men stand on the black Kentucky
border making themselves available
for love. In short, there is nothing
I like here. I come here because, lacking
a car, plane, or boat, it is only here that
a Kentuckian can stare at the emerald
green lights of Indiana. In Indiana,
dreams come true so fast no one can
count them. They just pile up haphazardly
like leaves along the shoreline,
shining like gold.

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