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OhCanada

The Sestina the group wrote:

Oh Canada,

Land of moose,

Land of vaccine

Oh the humiliation:

Over the border,

Health my destination.

Heading out that was my destination

I felt myself so drawn to Canada

A French Canadian at the border

Told me a funny story about a moose

Imagine my profound humiliation

When he learned I was here only for the vaccine.

I was advised to get a flu vaccine,

to get to my final destination.

Immigration gave humiliation!

God it was tough getting into Canada!!

I bet it would be easier as a moose...

then I could just walk acrosss the border.

Today I jumped over the border

to inject some precious flu vaccine

I thought I had healed a furious moose

(when two miles from my destination

which lay in bubbly Vancouver, Canada)

but alas it became a maple tree, to my humiliation

I will never get over the humiliation

I had to leave and cross the border

Not room enough in all of Canada

For romance there is no vaccination

Canada then is not my destined nation

I glumly gelled my hair with chocolate mousse

THAT evening, out in search of Moose-

head beer, we reached the Steam Brewery, there humiliated

to discover that, at out destination,

a bar near the station, on the border

of Gastown, where beer acts as a vaccine

against the rain, there was no respect for the brew of Canada.