ANDREW JOHNSTON

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Foxtrot

The French think he's American,
the Americans, English.

The English, Irish, Scots and Welsh
say he sounds Australian.

Only the Australians
can tell where he's from —

because he says dance
as in aunts,

not ants — not
that he can dance,

he can't, not
even with his aunt.

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