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A poem reflecting on Beirut's latest tragedy, and the evergreen resilience of its people.
A woman sits with a dog over the Mediterranean sea waterfront by a fishing boat in the area of Dbayeh, north of the capital Beirut (background skyline), before sunset on December 5, 2019. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)

Beirut, your heavy burdens would bury most,

for in your dusk, the air is thick with history seething, groaning, thrashing.

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