In 1966, while leafing through an obscure book, a 19-year-old Japanese aspiring poet by the name of Setsuo Yazaki discovered a poem that stopped him up short with its staggering generosity of empathy and existential truth conferred with great simplicity:
BIG CATCH
At sunrise, glorious sunrise
it’s a big catch!
A big catch of sardines!On the beach, it’s like a festival
but in the sea, they will hold
funerals
for the tens of thousands dead.
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