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THE DONKEY AND THE STARSOnce upon a time there lived an old donkey on Okinawa Island,
who fell asleep every night looking up at the moon.
And in his dreams, he would dream of white doves
who were gathering him a basket filled with stars.
“Dear doves” the old donkey would say, “throw down the basket,
so that the stars may flutter around me like butterflies”.
And so they would, but at that very moment
the sun would begin to rise, little by little,
and instead of stars and doves and butterflies,
the old donkey would wake up surrounded by flies,
who would laughingly say to him:
“Dear donkey, sleepy old donkey, wake up now, the sun has risen”.
And that’s why each morning, the donkeys and the flies
would amble down to the beach together
to watch the dawn and the colours of the sea
turning from red to orange and from orange to blue...
And all this happened on Okinawa Island,
a place just like any other place,
so near and yet so far from the moon and the stars.
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