Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos....
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
