Stalling, Stealing, Civilization...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

I am in no mood to write anything today. I think the "blues" have caught up with me big time. My grandmother used to tell me, when you are feeling down, count your blessings and you will feel better... I search for the blessings...They are not to be found in Iraq. More pillaging and more destruction. More lost lives and lost loves... More broken hearts, more destroyed souls...Evaporated bodies, names that no longer exist, faces that one digs hard to remember... All gone in some whirlpool of black smoke made of gunpowder...Made of army uniforms, made of sectarian shouts, made of dancing over the dead... Iraq will never be a shia only state. And we have enough with one "chosen" people, we don't need another one. Let the sectarian "chosen" ones move next door...

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