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I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.
I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.
The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.
It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.
Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.
News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly.
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina.
If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?
The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
That such people could accomodate conflicting worldly labels... was a talent of postcolonial life, evidence of adaptation by people who have had many different categories foisted on them by outsiders.
This year will take from me
the hardened person
who I longed to be.
I am healing by mistake.
Rome is also built on ruins.
