<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Incinerated, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">nope, not my photograph&#8230;<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Gela_Painter_-_Black-Figure_%22Pinax%22_%28Plaque%29_-_Walters_48225.jpg/330px-Gela_Painter_-_Black-Figure_%22Pinax%22_%28Plaque%29_-_Walters_48225.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Entire Summer Got Cremated</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>By the Snow that Fell, for a Thousand Year on End</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>As You’d Passed Through the Airport Checkpoints</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Your Chest Started Beeping Endlessly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>With Chance of an Explosion at Any Given Minute</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>You Were, Restricted from Boarding the Airplanes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Your Heated Body Slowly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Became, Baked, into a Clay Figurine</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>You’d Armed Yourself, Dodged the First Emperor of China for Many Years</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Just Being Discovered, You Were, Shipped Off, to an Exhibition, at a Museum</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>You’d Looked Around Lost</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>And, All of Your Fellow Service Mates Had Gone into Their Separate Reincarnation Cycles</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Fighting to Take a Photograph with You</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Only Remain that You Own Was, a Red Piece of Clothing</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Placed, on Display, in a Glass Coffin</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Lonely Cloth Burial</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Had, Buried You, in Blood</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">And that, is ALL the remained, after the person D-I-E-S, some materialistic belongings that were associated with the person who’d died, and that, is a life, lived in vain.  I mean, wouldn’t YOU want someone to remember you in some other ways, rather than just, burying your clothes???</p>
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