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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-15-08 08:39 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 4/15/08 (warning: graphic language)
Edited on Tue Apr-15-08 08:43 PM by BlueIris
"Flight"


We ran from a home
						                                                                we never saw again.

Saw nothing
						                                                                             remain ours.

My arm shot.

			                                                 from my body.  My wife's broken

neck.  Our son burned

					                                                                 into a wing of smoke.

A peeled face boiling with flies.

						                                                                           A man tearing

his gangrened leg off

			                                            with his hands.  A girl with her eyes

blown away.  She was still
						                                                                                 screaming.

I know you

						                                                                         cannot help us.

We will die before you

							                                                                                  are born.

Things flee
						                                                                              their names.

Ash.  Bone-salt.  Charred embers.
							                                                                                    of skull

The soot is
							                                                                                       mute.


—Suji Kwock Kim
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-15-08 08:44 PM
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1. Info about the author and her 2002 book, "Notes from the Divided Country,"
about the Korean War, other conflicts that impacted the people of South East Asia in the 20th century, and the impact of those conflicts on her speaker's life, the lives of family members and survivors. Notes from the Divided Country also addresses the perils of the American immigrant and the challenges faced by people of color in our racist world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suji_Kwock_Kim
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-15-08 09:42 PM
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2. K&R....n/t
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-15-08 11:12 PM
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3. Thanks, hon.
Happy somebody read this.
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-16-08 10:20 PM
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7. you are very welcome....
....sometimes it's hard to make liberals out of liberals....
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-16-08 10:25 PM
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8. I am reminded of that in oh so painful ways on nights like these.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-16-08 12:28 AM
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4. Kick.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-16-08 04:23 AM
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5. Kick.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-16-08 08:01 AM
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6. Kick.
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