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ISTANBUL—At least 12 Syrians, including eight children, drowned early Wednesday off the Turkish coast as they attempted to cross the Aegean to reach Greece, the latest deaths at sea in this year’s migrant crisis in Europe. (The Wall Street Journal)

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ransoms

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life goes on

people go

east to west

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boat people

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"In boredom

blame heaven
excitement brings

tears

with ennui

comes a smile

in my next life

I don’t want to be a man

just a pine tree

rustling in the sky

on a rock

if you like the cold

climb up with me"

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Notes:

(1) adapted from the poem “The Pine Tree” by Nguyen Cong Tru

(2) Illustration: adapted from the mural-sized oil painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso(June 1937).

Guernica is the name of a Spanish village destroyed by massive bombings by German and Italian Air Forces on 26 April 1937.

J B Ho

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9-6-2015