<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Egyptian summer</p><div class="figure-img" data-ke-type="image" data-ke-style="alignCenter" data-ke-mobilestyle="widthOrigin"><img src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cafeattach/mN2n/3b263447ba3f59e1a02e1e07771d3f4cc99ff286" class="txc-image" width="294" height="393" data-img-src="https://t1.daumcdn.net/cafeattach/mN2n/3b263447ba3f59e1a02e1e07771d3f4cc99ff286" data-origin-width="2448" data-origin-height="3264"></div><p>             </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Young Seon Kim</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Three thousand year old king</p><p style="text-align: center;">Who dreamed of eternity and wanted to be a god</p><p style="text-align: center;">Lying in a glass box greeting the living</p><p style="text-align: center;">A pyramid standing tall in the desert flame</p><p style="text-align: center;"> Scorching heat of the valley of the kings</p><p style="text-align: center;">became a playground of people more obsessed with the dead than the living</p><p style="text-align: center;">A Egyptian coachman who asked for a few more dollars</p><p style="text-align: center;">turns away disappointed after tour guide’s threatening word “Police Bar”</p><p style="text-align: center;">I, sitting in the coach with vanity using their poverty</p><p style="text-align: center;">hang my head in shame</p><p style="text-align: center;">Despite of the luxury of having all the seasons they don't have</p><p style="text-align: center;">this traveller criticizes the weather for being too hot and uncomfortable.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The boat man who carries me across the Nile</p><p style="text-align: center;">chanting “Insha'Allah” seems embraces all the seasons of life without a fight</p><p style="text-align: center;">A wave in the Nile hits the back of my hand as if reprimanding</p><p style="text-align: center;">Sacred ibis, manifestation of god of wisdom soaring over my head as if teach me a lesson</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p><b>          </b></p><p> </p>
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