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  • kamenyaiba

    Suzuki-san: RedBuster!
    Baba-san: BlueBuster!
    Komiya-san: YellowBuster!
    Matsumoto-san: BeetBuster!
    Jinnai-san: Enter :-|
    Shibasaki-san: Director!

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  • halcynth

    “My husband, photographer Michael Nye, once photographed in a West Bank Palestinian refugee camp for days, and was followed around by a little girl who wanted him to photograph her. Finally, he did — and she held up a stone with a poem etched into it. (This picture appears on the cover of my collection of poems, 19 Varieties of Gazelle — Poems of the Middle East). Through a translator, Michael understood that the poem was ‘her poem’ — that’s what she called it. We urged my dad to translate the verse, which sounded vaguely familiar, but without checking roundly enough, we quoted the translation on the book flap and said she had written the verse. Quickly, angry scholars wrote to me pointing out that the verse was from a famous Darwish poem. I felt terrible. I was meeting him for the first and last time the next week. Handing over the copy of the book sheepishly, I said: ‘Please forgive our mistake. If this book ever gets reprinted, I promise we will give the proper credit for the verse.’ He stared closely at the picture. Tears ran down his cheeks. ‘Don’t correct it,’ he said. ‘It is the goal of my life to write poems that are claimed by children.’”

    — Naomi Shihab Nye, from her essay “Remembering Mahmoud Darwish”  

  • softleogurl

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    this is the poem

  • anneemay

    Wait…can someone post the mentioned picture?

  • killyfromblame

    this is the biggest version i could find that wasn’t an obvious photo of somebody’s copy of the book. still not great quality, but better than nothing

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  • number-one-toku-robot-lover

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    People of the world, are you doing well?
    I am a traveler, traveling across the galaxy
    The earth shines from afar
    The planet I miss the most

    The cities are filled with smiles
    Gentle looks from the young and old alike
    Girls let their hair play in the wind
    Dreaming as they bite onto their lips

    Is the earth at peace?
    Is everyone happy?

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  • the-overanalyst

    it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.