IN MY SPARE TIME During my long, boring hours of spare time I sit to play with the earth’s sphere. I establish countries without police or parties and I scrap others that no longer attract consumers. I run roaring rivers through barren deserts and I create continents and oceans that I save for the future just in case. I draw a new colored map of the nations: I roll Germany to the Pacific Ocean teeming with whales and I let the poor refugees sail pirates’ ships to her coasts in the fog dreaming of the promised garden in Bavaria. I switch England with Afghanistan so that its youth can smoke hashish for free provided courtesy of Her Majesty’s government. I smuggle Kuwait from its fenced and mined borders to Comoro, the islands of the moon in its eclipse, keeping the oil fields in tact, of course. At the same time I transport Baghdad in the midst of loud drumming to the islands of Tahiti. I let Saudi Arabic crouch in its eternal desert to preserve the purity of her thoroughbred camels. This is before I surrender America back to the Indians just to give history the justice it has long lacked. I know that changing the world is not easy but it remains necessary nonetheless. Fadhil al-Azzawi (Iraq, 1940) Fadhil al-Azzawi was born in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq. He studied English at Baghdad University and journalism at the University of Leipzig. He spent three years in an Iraqi jail and in 1977 settled in then East Germany.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:19:36 +0000
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