At a Happiness Symposium in Wales
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A psychologist said
Graveyards may help you feel happier,
visit a graveyard when you are depressed
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
and I am a graveyard
I am happy to be alive, my friend
After Halabja and Anfal
I am happy to become the voice
of a land
that contains the mass graves of our brothers
There is a thin line between life and death, my friend
There is a thin line between life and death
.
by Nazand Begikhani
from Bells of Speech
Ambit Books, London, 2006
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