Of Utmost Importance

I miss all the places I've never been to.

On an unremarkable afternoon, 

in front of the typewriter, 
I finish the hardest task of my life with these following words:

[...]

And it is of utmost importance now, most urgently so, to write a poem about 

Iceland 
Romania Russia Thailand 
Sudan Algeria Canada France Albania 
Bolivia Croatia China England 
Norway Vietnam Togo Singapoure Finland
Ukraine Sweden Nigeria Tibet 
Switzerland Belarus Netherlands Latvia Estonia
Hungary Germany Denmark Ethiopia Italy Egypt
Cuba Serbia Australia New Zealand
Greece Iraq Brazil Japan 
N. Korea S. Korea 
Georgia Czech Republic Canada Azerbaijan 
India Greenland Armenia Mexico Angola Portugal Rwanda 
Slovakia Pakistan Slovenia Poland Mongolia 
Honk Kong Kuwait Lebanon Cambodia Liberia United States of America 
Yemen Turkey Uruguay Madagascar Lithuania 
Chile Belgium Luxembourg 
Austria Haiti 
Antarctica

... home.


But I've never been there.  

Author's Note

“I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.” - William Hazlitt