To Whom It May Concern
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To Whom It May Concern

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 20, 20261 min
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Soon I'll move to Norway.

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I'm going, and I won't wallow, not in Norway, where there's so beyond slave labor, with

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This audio poem is a production of poetryfoundation.org. To Whom It May Concern Soon I'll move to Norway. If that's a bitter pill, well, swill, swallow.

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I'm going, and I won't wallow, not in Norway, where there's so beyond slave labor, with laws that say a clerk must work within five meters of a window through which she can see a tree and by that tree be seen. My mind's made up.

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I will be Norwegian with Norwegian trees. I'll be seer and be seen. It's a scenic scene. It's how it goes, I'm going.

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