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Lost in the Desert
by Yoshie Furuhashi
To the peacemakers
     who want us to travel
          half the way with BHO. . . .

In a book of Persian proverbs
I find:
یکی با پنبه سر می‌برد یکی با شمشیر
This one kills with a sword,
That one, with cotton.
Wisdom of the ages
Abandoned by wanderers
Lost in the desert
To whom
Even an old shoe
Is a gift from God.

Yoshie Furuhashi is editor of MRZine.  She is indebted to Mojtaba Aghamohammadi for the two proverbs used in this poem.
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