The Japanese think,
That Westerners,
Do Not Understand,
The concept of,
Wabi-sabi.
Its celebration of,
The beauty,
Of imperfection.
Of frayed edges,
Cracks and glitches,
Dropped stitches.
The delight,
In the marks left behind,
By use;
The stories in the scars,
And the passage of time.
I think,
The Japanese are wrong.
We do understand Wabi-sabi.
We just call it,
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