Six Sonnets: South Korea
by John Kendall Hawkins
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I. Pizza with Kimchi
What the hell were they thinking, dividing
a country this way? North, South. One now two.
They'd slept thousands of years under Chinese
soft rule, mostly autonomous, Yes, please.
Then the notorious Japanese coup.
I hip-checked Dan-Bi, slow in deciding.
I said to Chef, who'd trained in Paris,
Let's go with "The 38th Parallel,"
deep pan, half kimchi, half meat lover.
Chef paused, smiled, and seemed to look us over.
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