The National Park of Costa Rica, (Parque Nacional de Costa Rica) is a small plaza located in San Jose, Costa Rica. While Costa Rica has many large and wild national parks, the National Park is something much different.

Measuring about a city block, or 700 by 300 feet, the park is an urban plaza with paths, benches, a small artificial pond, and in the center, a national monument depicting in allegorical form the expulsion of the filibuster William Walker. Around the plaza lie several important buildings: San Jose's central train station, Estacion Atlantico, the National Library, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, and a block away, the new National Legislature Building. It is also close to the National Museum.

In some ways, this might sound like something like the National Mall in Washington, D.C.: a pedestrian plaza surrounded by important government and cultural buildings. And while the concept might be the same, Costa Rica's National Park is much smaller. And while

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it happened one night you were drinking chartreuse

and slept a sleep so sound and so deep

you dreamed of a poem 

a beautiful poem that longed to be read

but knowing full well there were spies all around

foreign agents and fellow travelers 

and knowing what lay in the hearts of third men 

a poem you kept was a poem you kept hidden  

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