OCT 2, national and multinational verse (imperialistic trio): Panama Canal Zone

 a) Reprise of material posted on October 2 in previous years ...

2020: Greek prefixes, chrono- (poem)
2021: anagram swarms, Canadian scramble-towns 7 (wordplay maps) 
2022: Italian loanwords, ciao (illustrated poem)
2023: decorative touches, Gaudi bench (fabric art)

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fabric art by R.C.H.

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b) Today's Offering (Oct 2, 2024):  

Authors' Note: Late in 2024, the presidential-candidate / incumbent US president turned his attention from Canada, a friendly neighbour that he had threatened with massive tariffs, dangling the possibility of a sort of "Anschluss".

His sudden announcement that "excessive" shipping fees across the Panama Canal were a matter of vital national US interest was accompanied by threats to retake control of the Canal Zone, a region that had been under sole Panamanian control since 1979.

The author of the above poem in his prior work acclaim had discussed the role of President Theodore Roosevelt (T.R.) in construction of the Panama Canal, therein revealing the neo-palindrome A man, a plan, if final — Panama.

The other members of this currently topical 'imperialistic trio' include fifty-first and Greenland.

You can review our collection of verses about various individual nations, and about the groupings to which they belong, on our topic-based blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.