Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Poetic Obituaries: Reading the poem, I can picture

the kind, smiling face of the child's mother, who must be rather plump.

Takumi Nishiyama, who wrote the poem, was murdered Tuesday at his home in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture. He was 9. His mother, 30, who admitted to strangling him with an electric cord, was arrested.

from The Asahi Shimbun: Why would a parent want to kill their child?

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