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“Worries for Mom” by Ki Hyeong-Do

JibrilTuesday, February 11th, 2014Friday, October 28th, 2022

Gone to marketcarrying thirty bunches of young radishes on her head,mom still hasn’t returned and the light’s long faded.I’m forgotten,…

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