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M .  N .   O ' B r i  e n

SHORES OF JAPAN

Kurosawa in Love

You hate bees and I love the flowers.

Honey, we can't have it all.

Self-annihilating demands,

bells tolling out thunder,

    shattering themselves,

    on decisions.

But we're doing alright,

that space is filled, and our chicken

will learn to hatch before the sun

rises over Japan.