once more: Life Is Like This by Orhan Veli Kanik

This house had a dog,
Very shaggy;
Named Chinchon;
It died.
This house also had a cat: Mavish.
It got lost.
The daughter of the house got married.
So many other bittersweet things
Happened last year.
Yes, they did.
But it’s like this.
Life’s always like this!

translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat

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