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Friday, December 31, 2004

 

"I guess all the problems are solved. The only problem left is the chain on the elephant's feet at the Tehran zoo."
-sheema

a) I can't relate to abstract pain and sufferings but when I watch the stories of these people on TV it's another matter. It hurts.
b) I am a pretty liberal girl but the recent posts/acts by Masoud Behnoud and Hossein Derakhshan are very disappointing.
c) I have added several more poems/poets to the Poetry of Iranian Women project.
  


Thursday, December 30, 2004

 


از وبلاگ نیلو و فرازش
يك روز وبلاگ مد ميشه و همه وبلاگ نويس يا وبلاگ خون ميشن و كسي با كلاس تر است كه هنوز اسم وبلاگ را نگفته جد و آباد نويسنده وبلاگ نويس مربوطه را نام ببره و در جربان باشه كه فلان نويسنده كيه و كجا زندگي ميكنه و متاهله يا مجرد.
ولي جديدا مد عوض شده .اگه ميخواين با كلاس جلوه كنين و برين تو صف متفكرين وقتي حرف وبلاگ ميشه بگين:مگه فلاني توي وبلاگش چي گفته؟ من در جريان نيستم. مدتي است وبلاگ نميخونم. اون وقت كلاس شما ميره بالا تر و شيك ميشين.
به ابالفضل العباس با خودم بودم. به وبلاگ قسم با خودم بودم. به روشنفکری قسم با خودم بودم.به اورکات قسم با خودم بودم. به Testimonial قسم با خودم بودم.

  


 


دیگر حرفی برای تو نخواهم نوشت
و پرکهای گلی را به یادت پر نخواهم کرد
و دستهایم را بر گلبرگهای وجودی نخواهم نشاند

امروز از صدها هزار گذشته اند
قایقرانهای بی نان و ماهی و
شراب خون و کف
در میان چشمها و دندانهای شکسته اشان

می ترسند
می لرزیم

  


Tuesday, December 28, 2004

 

I had more tests done today.
  


 

Being loyal in a friendship is important to me. Just because I am a humble girl doesn't mean I will allow you to walk all over me!
  


Monday, December 27, 2004

 

Meet the Press

Jeff Jarvis writes: "Meet the Press has been the smartest show on TV. They can get anyone they want. They used to try a little harder to find someone smart.

Now their guests are as random as an elevator ride."
  


 

از يه طرف خوبه که مردم به شعر و ادبيات علاقه نشون ميدن. از طرف ديگه... بيچاره فريدون مشيری. بيچاره سهراب سپهری. ديگه از تمام اصطلاحاتی که با کلمهء سبز درست ميشن حالم به هم ميخوره: سبز باشيد. منتظر حضور سبزتان هستيم. سلامی سبز... اگه يه بار ديگه يکی برام بخونه كه «چرا خانه كوچك ما سيب نداشت؟» رعشه به تنم ميفته و پابرهنه و هوارکشون از خونه ميدوم بيرون

از
وبلاگ
پانته آ
  


Sunday, December 26, 2004

 

When Death Comes

You play with people's heart
And forget that the heart can break
And at the Pennsylvania station
Mirrors reflect the strangers
Who will apart

When death comes
The rose petals -blown on the white pages
Followed by a plant of faithfulness
And a period of quiet
Will be sketches of a life not fully written

The frozen poetry
Or the color of dense smoke
In a New York bar
And Moscow club meetings
Worn on yellow pages of a comrade
Are just some old-fashioned storybooks
Thirsty to fly

Stepping off the station
You realize the endings
Remain with you for several days

It is true if you still think of me
When throwing the log fire and the yellow pages
Drop by drop making habits out of the inevitable action

Make one in marble
In either nature or man
As far as the eye can see
On the snow -not really knowing yourself

You wasted such a long walk to die!

Sheema Kalbasi
  


Saturday, December 25, 2004

 

The only other regime that had surpassed the Iranian regime in terms of backwardedness was Taliban.

Sheema Kalbasi
  


 

Carry your cross and I'll carry mine...(Click to view the clip)

"Although Iran has been known as the second richest country in the oil reserves, 43 homeless people have died out of cold and starvation in the streets of capital-Tehran-within 21 days. This is while the Islamic regime is busy demonstrating against and blaming the U.S. (the great Evil), day and night."
eehum.com

  


Friday, December 24, 2004

 

Christmas Eve

for my daughter


If Danes' greatest sorrow was not my dark color
If my girl was a year older and my husband had lighter skin
If my kindness was not misread

Perhaps wordless in porous lines...



Look! Look! What a lovely world!
We can fly feather for arms...

Beautiful pearl, take your mamma's hand
And remember when nothing stops the cold
Shout: Where is my fishing boots?
I want to find the lighthouse.

Sheema Kalbasi
  


Thursday, December 23, 2004

 

Journalist, Ms. Fereshteh Ghazi is admitted to a hospital in Tehran after her release from the prison. She is reported to be physically and mentally weakened. (via freebatebi.com)

I am standing in the line to pay for the grocery and my eyes fall on the pictures of Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, XYZ... I wonder if they all are not The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit... or maybe I am just in one of my Scorpio moods!
  


 

There are two type of rulers, the Leaders and the Killers.

sheema kalbasi
  


Tuesday, December 21, 2004

 

Happy Birthday dearest P...

Kisses and heart

  


 

Pleasure Me

I am a woman first
Emerging from the words
My shadow lingering on the snow
Trying to regain the power of being
To keep my balance
And the elements of being,
Steps away...

Hundred copies
Hundred copies
Are sold
My face, my eyes, my hands, my thoughts...
It amuses me, how many are willing to pay for a bite!

When I am loved, I am transformed!
I am kind and sensual
When I am not,
I am divided

I don't want the social pleasures
I want you to seek me.

Sheema Kalbasi
  


Monday, December 20, 2004

 

Imshin, my favorite Israeli mother bloges: "I am not a very sociable person at the best of times, and at the moment, it appears, even less than usual. Blogging, a sort of sociable endeavor, even without a comment option, seems daunting, when the preferred pastime is lying in bed, staring at the ceiling."

...and I...one exhausted and tired mama...agree with her!
  


 

After driving the in-laws to the airport... we went to the library. I wanted to find some books about this writer ... I am often said to be reminding people of her personality and writing... leaving the old building... trying to keep my balance and elegance (!) on the snow covered stony stairs... with a white shawl around my neck... I felt like one of the New England writers... from 1930s...
a blind acceptance of me?

I have been trying to find a foundation/funding/grants to support the Poetry of Iranian Women... suddenly I get this idea! I am going to have Sheema Kalbasi foundation and get financial support to promote the project. I run downstairs and start telling P about it.
P: Sheema! The foundation should be in the name of a dead person. When you die in about 120 years (as we say in Persian) perhaps there will be a foundation in your name.
Sheema: But Barbra Streisand has a foundation and she is alive.
P: (trying to break the news with affection and kindness).. yes! but she is very famous!
  


Sunday, December 19, 2004

 



چند روز پیش دکتر مجید نفیسی زنگ زدن ....
هنوز حرف نزده... شیما عذر خواهی می کنه که
هنوز شعری که قرار بوده ترجمه کنه (شعر خودمو برای نشریه آرش)
به علت بیماری و غیره وقت نکرده و تا بیست دقیقه دیگه
ترجمه کرده/ فکس می کنه... بعد از فکس و غیره...
تلفن زنگ می زنه و دکتر نفیسی می پرسن که خط سوم از آخر چی بوده...
شیما: ببخشید.. اجازه بدین نیگا کنم... این دختر کوچولو ترجمه مو اینقدر( مثل برق)
مچاله کرده که قابل خوندن نیست...

بابا بزرگ و دختر کوچولو کلاشون تو هم رفته...
توی رستوران : بابا بزرگ خسته روی نیمکت می شینه تا نفسی تازه کنه...
دختر کوچولو روی نیمکت دراز می کشه
پاهاشم می زاره روی نیمکت و هی می زنه به پاهای باریک و نازک بابا بزرگش...

توی ماشین: بعد از هزار بدبختی
دختر کوچولو بالاخره ( کشون کشون) رضایت داده بریم توی ماشین ...
شروع می کنه به غرولند ...
به محض اینکه بابابزرگ با لحن جدی می گه من پیاده می شم...
دختر ساکت می شه ... بعد یه مدت دوباره شروع
می کنه که پاشو حتما هرجوری شده برسونه به بابابزرگ...

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پدر پ چند سالی هست با سرطان کلیه دست و پنجه نرم می کنن و با همه ضعیفی وقتی دیدن نوه شیطونشون میان صبرشون قابل تحسینه...

  


Friday, December 17, 2004

 


...شاید
آرزوها، ارواحی اند از خواسته ها ...
و دستی که به تحیر در میانه گیسوانت می بری و فکر می کنی... اینچنین بود؟
و چشمانت که بیدار در شب، از دیوانگی به راستای پنجره ای می زنند و زوزه می کشند...
...و تو خوابیده-نخوابیده در میان بستری می ایستی، سرک می کشی به قلب شکسته در سوگ مادر...
سرک می کشی به میانه خوابی که بی خواب اشکها را واپس می زند
و لبهایی که غم را می گزند به تلخی... تنت را روی زمین می کشی ...
لختی دوباره می ایستی... لختی دوباره می ایستد...
دستانت را به هم می پیچی... دستانش را به هم می پیچد...
روی زمین گوشه ای می شینی تا معشوق به غم تو از خواب ناز بیدار نشود...
بیدار می شود... می بوسدت... سرت را در آغوش می گیرد... می گوید: می دانم

شیما کلباسی



  


Thursday, December 16, 2004

 

Iranian women... writing poetry... are welcome to send me ( Sheema58 (at) hotmail (dot) com ) one - two poems for the Poetry of Iranian Women project... (click on the red letters)
  


 


خیلی دلم می خواست زودتر از اینها راجع به حرکت مدنی دانشجوها چیزی بنویسم اما سالگرد مامان داشتم واسه یه سری از همین دانشجوها یه چیزایی رو ترجمه می کردم و این چند روزه هم مشغول نوشتن پروژه و غذا پختن برای مهمان هایی که امشب می رسند و تمیز کاری گذشته و انگشتام خسته و فکرم سرجمع نیست...

  


 

This is just a game(Click on the red letters) but if it was for real...I would readily trade my blog ... starting at $18,393.95...to the highest buyer... anyone?

My father in-law is very keen about his hair. He has beautiful shiny hair and uses shampoos with natural ingredients (preferably from Iran) and last time he was here I didn't know he has forgotten his shampoo... apparently he had used mine and when I saw him with hair looking like Einstein... I couldn't help it... I was rolling on the floors... laughing...
I hope it wont happen this time!
  


 

Tarja... a friend and a member of Amnesty in Finland, after reading my blog wrote: "Yesterday I read a poem by Po Chu-i, it was written in the 8th century or so. He talked about how the learned and enlightened people always are the first to go to prison - what has changed? It could've been written yesterday! It's so depressing, we humans have all the power and intelligence to make this planet a good place to live, but we choose not to. Century after century, decade after decade - violence, corruption, oppression, desperation, waste of lives."
  


Wednesday, December 15, 2004

 

I am not a nationalist but this is too good to not have it on my blog the Persian Gulf and the National Geographic Society...
  


 

Thomas Helmig... a Danish singer, is my little girl's latest favorite...
  


 

These cutie pies have their awards distributed between themselves (the American bloggers) and call it the Best of the Top 100 - 250 Blogs!!
  


 

در ضمن این صفحه از کتابم "سنگسار" را می گذارم اینجا که دیگه واسه من از طرف خودم به خودم (اینم از عجایب روزگاره ها) ابراز نظر راجع به من نفرمایید (خود تون می دونین کی هستین)


سنگسار، مجموعه افکار و اشعار من است و تقدیم می کنم به همه صداهای خاموش شده، زندانی، پوسیده و آوارهُ ایرانی، به تمامی فعالان سیاسی اعدام شده، زندانیان زندانهای رژیمهای حاکم بر ایران، دختران و پسران جوان ایرانی که در اوج وطن دوستی اسیر سودای فریبکاران و تندروهای مذهبی، سیاسی و اجتماعی می شوند، اقلیتهای مذهبی اعم از یهودیان ایرانی آواره گشته تا بهاییان ایرانی اعدام شده، دختران ایرانی که در میان آتش خودسوزی می کنند و زنان و مردانی که به جرم عشق ورزی، سنگسار می شوند. این کتاب را به همه ایرانیانی که در درون رحم مادر وطن، مورد شکنجه قرار می گیرند و به عنوان یک انسان حتی حق انتخاب در باورهای دینی، سیاسی، روابط اجتماعی و جنسی خود را ندارند تقدیم می نمایم.

شيما کلباسی
  


 

یه روز به پ گفتم خسته شدم از این همه اخبار بد... خسته هستم این همه از بدبختی شنیدن... می خوام برم یه جای دور... دور از همه کس و همه چی... گفت از اینجا دورتر کجا؟

الان می خوام بگم گور بابای دنیا... مگه من تو پنج سالگی انقلاب کردم یه عده جانی رو آوردم سر کار؟ نه! مگه بزرگترای من ( بابا و مامان) عقلشون رو از دست داده بودن یا برن تو خیابون شعار بدن و یه عده قاتل بیان سر کار؟نه! نه! مگه من توی دوره مصدق-پهلوی گریپاچ کردم و موندم یا فوبیای سلطنت دارم؟نه! نه! نه! پس واسه چی من باید اینجا بشینم هی غم بخورم و غصه و اشک بریزم و برم دوش آب گرم بگیرم تا از سردی تنم کم بشه و انگشتای یخزدم بتونن روی کلیدهای این کامپیوتر بکوبن تا این درس و تحویل بدم...

دارم می میرم از اینهمه رنج مردم رو دیدن...
  


 

I

در آنسوی آبی آسمان
زنی در لای لای خاک می نالد
و داستان خیانتش
آکنده از سنگ مرگ
طهارتی مردانه
  


 

II

پشت پنجره ام سایه سنگسار شدگان
می لغزد و بر روی صفحه رایانه ام
تصویر گریان من

شیما کلباسی
  


 

امشب آخرین کلاس این ترم هست. یک پروژه دیگر را هم باید تحویل بدهم و یک صفحه هم ننوشته ام... خونه احتیاج به تمیزکاری داره و اصلا وقت و حوصله ندارم. آداب دستشویی یاد دادن به دختر کوچولو پدرمو درآورده... باید ...چند روز دیگه ...از فرصت بودن مادر شوهر و پدرشوهر و برادر شوهر استفاده (سواستفاده) کنم و با پ بریم یک سینمایی چیزی


شماره ویژه اروتیسم Poetrism
  


Tuesday, December 14, 2004

 

Maryam Hooleh and Hooman Azizi (Iranian poets) need their voice to be heard... Their life is in danger.

The Poetry of Iranian Women project has been having readers from the Netherlands, US Educational, United States, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Australia, Canada, Austria, France, US Government, Germany, Iran, Belgium, Non-Profit Organizations, Brazil, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Poland, United Kingdom, Japan, Norway, US Military and Thailand.

US Military??


I have another appointment at the neurologist office today.

in a few days my in-laws will be here...

My brother-in-law on the phone: p? what does the little girl need?
P on the phone asking me: Sheema? Does the little girl need anything?
Sheema: No.
Brother-in-law: Fax it to me.
P:!
Sheema:!!


...last time we told them... the little girl doesn't need anything, there was a German tricycle, cloths, play kitchen, a potty training doll and Barney's friends...



Iran Freedom of Expression frontiers was founded one year ago to support journalists and Artists against Islamic Republic in Iran.

Just a reminder... when the Iranian regime arrested Sina Motallebi's father in Iran to make Sina stop exposing them...they succeeded. Sina has stopped blogging... When Maryam wrote to me a few months ago about what was going on... I didn't know the regime in Iran is using the same method on every poet, writer and artist or their family members to make the individual shut up... Maryam is a mother... yes, she is a great Iranian poet and the winner of Pen Sweden but she is a mother in need of help. You don't need to have had a refugee status to know how difficult it is to live in one room.

Voice it!

  


Monday, December 13, 2004

 

The world we live in (via Iranian Times)
  


Sunday, December 12, 2004

 

Purple Roses

From the ceiling
purple roses hung upside down
gripping the rages like blades

Arms outstretched...
alas! Short knitted hands,
dotted line-images
scrambled light

roaming...
on the way to survive!

Sheema Kalbasi

...more poets have been added (click on to read) to the Poetry of Iranian Women
  


Thursday, December 09, 2004

 

Dec.10th will be a year since I have lost my mother... Batoul Nayer. After reading this post, if your belief permits you, please say a prayer for her in your own language to whatever/whomever it is... you believe in.

Thank you,
Sheema Kalbasi


I click on your name... lean and I kiss your lips... unlike you... the face is cold.
  


Wednesday, December 08, 2004

 

امشب از اون شبهایی هست که مرگ مامان بدجوری داره له ام می کنه...
  


 

I've invited some friends over for Friday. They're from Brazil, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy and the U.S. I am going to serve them date, halva, cheese, bread, coffee and sweets. I will have white flowers and will light a white candle next to Maman's picture all day. I will... think of her like I do everyday...

I told you not to die...
You said but you've your life... you've P and the little girl and wont be needing your mother...

What was that about? Do I not need you? Do I ever forget you? I want to argue, to fight, to love, to care, to kiss, to wave at you, while you're waiting for me behind the glass doors, to embrace you... come... come to me... in my dreams... I want to feel you under my eyelashes... sing to me... talk to me... just BE!

You are sleeping... the soil is cold... are you cold?

Do you know of my pain?
I am with you everyday... every night...
when I am happy... when I cry...
I am always there... kneeling next to you...

I miss you.
  


 

...this is my latest photo (click on the latest photo to see)
  


 

Her mother was dying... a year ago... two days from today...

Images, memories after memories
The grand mother tickling the daughter, the daughter tickling her daughter
The grandmother looking straight through the light, the mother dies in pain, my mother in the coffin... I write my daughter is at the daycare.

There is no reasoning... I am older today
Sun-black, garage door closed, sorrow enters
The ears full...
I am two days apart from Ah! The foot and my own breasts
Food-bindings I cut with the scissors, the grief doesn't discontinue
Daylight?

Imprint on the waiting list... images...
Stuck... sin in pain... love in pain... live in pain...
Sensible Sheema... it's true... she has died... your mother... she is not.

Repair my joy... daylight?
Albums are full of beautiful faces... who said you could die?

Sheema Kalbasi
Dec/8th/2004
  


Monday, December 06, 2004

 

بدون مادری رنج آوره اما باز خدارو شکر من جزو آدمهای خوشبختی بودم که شانس مادر داشتن رو داشتم...

امروز با دختر کوچولو نشستم به نقاشی کردن... ولی مگه گذاشت! اول پاک کن... بعد رنگ روغن... بعد قلم مو... روی زمین می افتادند که یعنی به من شیطونک دوسال و نیمه توجه کن، نمی خوام نقاشی کنی... من اینجام... ولی با همه این حرفها ...امروز
اولین تابلوشو با رنگ روغن و غیره کشید ...
دیروز برای بازی بردمش پارک... از سرما تیک تیک می لرزیدم... با آجان کشی بالاخره رضایت داد که بیاد تو ماشین و بشینه تو صندلیش تا کمربند امنیتیشو ببندم که بریم... ولی پارک رفتن همانا و حال من بدتر شدن همان... چشمهام به قول مامان مثل تیغ ماهی شده... عطسه پشت عطسه... گلو درد... چهارشنبه هم کلی پروژه و ژورنال و بند و بساط باید تحویل بدم... خسته ام... بیرون برف میاد... دارم با خودم جدل می کنم که برم پایین پهلوی پ مهربونم تا با هم کنار درخت کریسمس روی مبل گرم و نرم و شومینه بشینم و چای بخوریم یا برم
بخوابم که دارم از خستگی از حال می رم...
اگه مامان زنده بودی همین الان مثل همون روزها زنگ می زدم و بهت میگفتم که دوست دارم... مامان خوشگل من


مرگت پشتم رو شکونده...
  


Saturday, December 04, 2004

 

Julestjernen
for her

I bought a white candle today
Walking with the world heavy tight to my hair,
Past the split days, past the milk, butter, the ice creams,
Peaches, apples, staring
Cheeks, lips, I am today
An undersign, under part leaf,
And I find one you would like, a Julestjernen
I breathe you, all day long
Your face prints on the glass
Pearl teeth, I kiss you... you don't move
Small wave wishes, longer, longer, plain, drowned empty escape
Repair my first year away... may... away... blood... away... plain... death.

Squeeze me... take me from the stone floor... supermarket is cold mother... Let my hands find your light hands... Squeeze me...
silenced crawling... the breasts digging dirt... people look pass me... I crawl, I pain,
Drum, call mother... loss... fluid... loss, death... mother... I... faint.

Sheema Kalbasi

Julestjernen: Is the Danish name for Poinsettia, it was my mother's favorite Christmas plant.
  


Friday, December 03, 2004

 

هرج و مرج و مدیریت بد ... توی این ممالک اینقدر ریشه دونده... که کتاب نویسنده هم بی اجازه اش چاپ می شه...

از "ممالک" منظور کشورهای شاخ شکسته هست که کپی رایت اصلا مرسوم نیست
  


Thursday, December 02, 2004

 

...finishing an essay for my weekend class...
...remembering the Florence nights... walking on the bridge...the lights reflecting on the river...
...and you walked into the fog...Do we remember the girl you married?
So many years has passed... we are happier now... each with a different spouse... you are with your Italian wife... I am with my Iranian man...

It is strange how I never think of you and then every Dec.2nd there you are... here I am... saying goodbye.


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Read Sayeh Saidi Sirjani's latest article on Iranian Times.
  


Wednesday, December 01, 2004

 

"Today while in front of the Ukrainian Parliament building, the Rada, I heard a man talking into his cell phone in a thick British accent telling someone on the other end that the crowd wasn't all that large."
Scott Clark writing from Kiev, Ukraine.

Sheema: How is it in the town you are?
My brother in Ukraine: It's bad here. It's full of university students as you know and every one is out in the streets.
Sheema: Don't go out! Be careful
Little brother: What do you suggest I should do...
Sheema (thinking: you could have stayed in Denmark for one) ... saying:I don't know... just be careful.
  


 

This evening Guido our Italian friend came over... and the little girl apparently likes Italian men very much!
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When the little girl is at the day care... she sleeps for an hour or so (every kid... kind of has to sleep for 1-2 hours) so on those nights she doesn't sleep her usual 8 p.m. ...tonight being one of those... P, carrying the little girl upstairs... the little girl shouting on top of her lungs: I can'ttt laaalaaaaaa... then starts laughing...

P... has spoiled this girl so bad...

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who keeps pinging me?...thank you! you are lovely.
  


 

نمی دونم چه جوری اینجوری شده اما این دختر ما یه جورایی خیلی لهجه آمریکایی داره... مثلا میگه "عاشگتم"... یا " ر" با تلفظ غلیظ که فکر می کنی مثلا من یا پ تکزاس بزرگ شدیم

جمعه باید راجع به تحقیقاتم در مورد اعدام در آمریکا صحبت کنم...

تب دارم... گلو درد شدید... اینجا با چشمهای گر گرفته نشستم و می نویسم... تا حالا هم در حال مرتب کردن نوشته هام راجع به "اعدام در آمریکا" بودم... پ رفته بدوه و دختر کوچولو هم اونجایی که پ هست نگهداری می شه... باد محکم به پنجره ها می کوبه امشب یه جورایی مثل کتاب بلندیهای بادگیره ...

... چند جا تماس گرفتم ببینم فاندینگ بهم می دن برای این پروژه (شعر زنان ایران) یا نه... انرژی و زمان می بره...
  


 

الان وبلاگ شهرزاد سپانلو دوست داشتنی را می خواندم... می تونین صدای خودش و آواز مادرانه اش را با لیلی کوچولوش بشنوین...
  


 

دختر کوچولو-در حال جیغ بنفش کشیدن: ساعت... ساعت... ساعتم... ساعت پلاستیکی صورتی همراه با بچه مرغابی و جوجه های زرد پلاستیکی... توی آب وان شناور)

دختر کوچولو: مانی ی ی ی ی ی ی ی... کمک کن ن ن ن ن
  


 

 

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