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_Oh rascal children of Gaza._
You who constantly disturbed me
with your screams under my window.
You who filled every morning
with rush and chaos.
You who broke my vase
and stole the lonely flower from my balcony.
Come back,
and scream all you want
and break all the vases.
Steal all the flowers.
Come back.
Just come back...

-Khaled Juma, Poet, 2014