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Travel Series: Tunisia

Travel & CultureDuke FORM
Travel Series: Tunisia

I am told

By a busy guide

That the blue is to keep them away:

(Mosquitos,

not tourists)

I squint

Hoping to see past the white walls

and the blue doors

And see the sea

Still blue, 

but a deeper kind

To see a history 

Millennia long

Too far to be seen from foreign eyes

Or remembered by foreign books

As on top of many layers,

Left by emperors and invaders ,

One cobblestone path holds what we see today

Greatness built on top of greatness 

A country built on top of many others

Tunisia,

White and blue.

WORDS AND PHOTOS BY TOMMASO BABUCCI