6.09.2009
Sending This Out To Mrs. Lucas:
“I want to be with you forever though the grasses of the whale-hunting sea come to shore but from time to time.”
— Nihon Shoki song, translated by Janine Beichman
(Editor’s Note: Apparently this poem was left by hotel staff on our chief correspondent’s bed in Tokyo. His unprintable response is best translated as: “Damn those lousy whale hunting sea grasses!”)
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Comment by Dale Shimasaki — 6.09.2009 @ 7:06 am
Greg Lucas true romantic. Dale, that’s why he’s a happily married man after all these years.
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