Roses being sold on sidewalk in Helsinki -- photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/world/middleeast/11darwish.html?th&emc=th
Said to have written famous lines spoken by Arafat at U.N.
"I come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch drop from my hand."
On Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC, almost opposite the statue of Winston Churchill in front of the British Embassy, is a memorial to Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, who also lived and wrote in exile, and whose remains were taken home to be buried.
We can't live and write in our home countries, or write and live. As a Burmese, what use is it to go home when dead?
Kyi May Kaung
