MCLC: the existence of space

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Martin Winter <dujuan99 at gmail.com>
Subject: the existence of space
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Source: BBC News (13/6/26): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23058104

And 

Martin Winter's blog (13/6/28):
http://erguotou.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/existence-of-space/,
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_68d111990101jsx8.html
 

Yesterday, June 27th, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had a photo from
the landing of the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft on June 26 on its first page.
They also printed a poem by Yi Sha in my German translation. Here is the
poem in English:

 
Yi Sha
THANK YOU, FATHER

under mao zedong
we had starry nights
we had vast starry skies
people lifting their heads
one summer night
it was father and i
father told me
about the universe
about a cosmonaut
yuri gagarin
flying in space
my mouth stood open
like a barn door
thank you, father
my heavenly father
in a dark corner
of north korea
measuring 9,600,000
square kilometres
among hundreds of millions
malnourished blockheads
i was the smartest
did not see the future
but i saw space
2003

Tr. MW, 2013
Martin