[Nettime-bold] Brand new world

["Mona Abdallah" <mona@lecafe.net>]

Hello all:

 

A poem by a friend of mine, the Arab poet, Ehab Lotayef. Will be published in the next issue of LeCafe. But definitely worth sharing NOW! Enjoy...

 

M

 

Brand new world
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Kabul fell.
Congratulations on swapping Abdul for Abdil.
Opium will be flowing, still,
and all the amputees,
survivors of a war that can't be won,
will continue to live in hell.
But, congratulations anyway:
Kabul fell

Today's heroes,
please don't forget,
are tomorrow's villains;
but only when the White-House-man
will have the will

Kabul fell,
and gardens of bright red roses
will grow around every well.
Caravans will give way to vans
and the mud-hut, to a motel.
It's the dawn of a brand new world,
now that Kabul fell

--
Ehab Lotayef
Montreal, November 13, 2001

 

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