Invisible Faces...

May you not find one day of Peace in your lives.

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
March 12, 2008
I had to go again to have some "paperwork" done, authenticated, officialized, approved, signed...
Again the fucking queue. One would have thought that I'd be used to it by now...
Again, all of them were Iraqis. One was limping, the other holding an infant, an elderly woman so frail, I felt she was going to collapse any minute, a man perspiring carrying around 10 passports, he was trembling so much, all his papers fell dispersing themselves like white flakes on the grey, dirty, floor...
He apologized to the "official" a thousand times for wasting 3 minutes of his precious time, he needed to get approval, he needed that signature...
Your name?
Your father's name ?
Your mother's name ?...
Go and get your security check !
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