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SLEEPLESS IN WAZIRISTAN
The Waziris call them ‘bangana’ (Pashto
for ‘buzzing wasps’) as they drone day and night –
like Doodlebugs in perpetual motion –
endlessly visible, unremittingly
audible, five thousand feet above
the clay-walled villages and towns, the markets
and the farms, the madrassas and the schools,
until some CIA operative,
in a Nevada mountain bunker,
or RAF personnel near Lincoln,
wakes and, after his/her double espresso
and cranberry muffin, identifies
the true enemy and left-clicks the mouse.
Note: the piece has subsequently been published at http://thirdsundaybc.com/2012/12/
4 responses to “SLEEPLESS IN WAZIRISTAN”
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Such on-form observation. Drama withheld – peaceful, domestic, ordinary. Then more domesticity from the brave new free-world. Then that mouse! Ouch! Even the title with its echo of “Sleepless in Seattle” lends it’s part. More! More!
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Sleepless in Waziristan?…..we should all be sleepless about this. Our turn next? It is only a question of time I suppose.
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The simplicity of the poetic form beguiles the horror of the situation, all the more poignant at this time of renewed horror in the Middle East.
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