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vasyl lozynsky
Fazenda Bar
This is story about a job; when
people take vacation because of a war.
They’d like to work at a bar or at
a reception desk and they come for an interview.
They can’t get vacation if their
employer or position is important.
“Who gets vacation for three months anyway?”
asks a girl who can’t return to
Donetsk, drinking her next cocktail
at the bar. The manager’s acquaintance
worked as a dancer in Thailand.
The girl wants to be invited to dance
and asks the waitress if anyone’s dancing
in the other room where a DJ’s playing.
But it doesn’t matter, we all think,
and someone says it aloud
and everyone continues reading the so-called
news on their so-called phones.
I can’t believe this will one day be considered tourism,
and the travel agency’s slogan will read:
“Run away!”