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I’m Captain Hook.
“Watch out from behind the tree.
Some folk said you mightnever laugh again.
We fly overempty landscapesof destructionand sail closeto catastrophicscars of change.
“Du bist gesegnet, wenn du das Ende der Fahnenstange erreicht hast.
“You’re blessed when you are at the end of your rope.
In the 1960s, my brother and I were booked to sing each evening to the 1200 passengers aboard the SS Flavia, an Italian ship.
'Where are my children?

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Drained and in want,I lie here with no strengthto get up on my feet.
My instinct was not to take a long trip in the open ocean in bad weather, but I had no choice.
My elderly Iranian parents have managed to live in New York City for over twenty years without speaking English.
Although I live in Australia, far away from the tragic 2004 earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean, I’ve still been distressed by the scenes of hundreds of bodies lined up for identification in makeshift open-air reception areas.