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This is a poem
called Small Shoes,

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which was inspired by a photo
of a Syrian child, Alan Kurdi.

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Maybe you can imagine the
photograph of a little boy

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washed up on a beach face down.

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And when I saw that photo, my
son also has short dark hair

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and was the same age.

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Motion Poems, which is an
organization in Minneapolis,

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made both this poem with
one filmmaker and Good Bones

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with another filmmaker
into short films.

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So if you go to the
Motion Poems website,

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you can actually watch a
short film of this poem

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and it will make you cry.

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So if you're not in the mood
for that, just don't do it.

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But if you need a good
tear ducts cleansing,

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it's a good idea.

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Small Shoes.

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If there are fewer stars
now than when I was a child,

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I can't say which are missing.

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Who was the last to see them?

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Is it not a crime unless
we call it a crime?

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It is difficult to
document a disappearance.

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A boat full of stars capsized.

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Stars lying in the sand face
down wearing small shoes.

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Add that to the report.

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Some of the stars washed
up in small shoes.

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