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11/30/09 - (2)
Dubai World
Dubai World, Fronted by the oil-inebriated United Arab Emirates, A confederation of trickle-down-economics sheik-down artists,
Who put all their Western Easter eggs in leaky baskets: A ski "mountain" moved into an indoor resort, A beach cooled by under-the-sand, refrigerated pipe work,
Golf courses drenched, hourly, with desalinated ocean water, Man-made islands kneaded into a vast palm-leaf array And a map of Earth's landmasses —
A surreal Xanadu out–Las Vegasing Las Vegas, A dizzying Disney World Shangri-la of mother's milk and money, A Bahamian Paradise Island Atlantis resurrected from silica...
Dubious World, Drowning in an oasis of debt, hoping to cross the Red-Ink Sea Before the parted waters close, squeeze it dry.
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