Iquitos, The Beating Heart of the Amazon

The City surrounded by three Rivers,
No need for a moat,
ast there are no roads going in and out,
Iquitos is the beating heart,
the small veins that run through it are bursting with motorkars,
each like a blood cell all pulsing.
Without the rivers, Iquitos would be nothing,
without Iquitos, the rivers would be virgin
like Lover and Beloved,
Iquitos longs for the wet embrace of the Forest.
And when the rain arrives,
Iquitos opens His arms,
and lets her amazonian rains through,
the tin roofs and plaster walls.
As the Peruvian people live each day at the mercy of the rivers around them,
they give thanks to that which gives them the wealth of the city.

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