Let's see who walked into the
wall, brick by brick always waiting until next Friday, whose high-pitched voice
boxes chant old tabloid headlines, who yell ‘bozo’ at passersby while shakily
chain smoking, whose whole lifetime seemed like a decade but had been six, who
faded back into time to an era nearly as incomprehensible as this one, whose
oil fields were looked at with deep hope and no one really had any notion of
having nice teeth,
Who first molded
bricks from the river Nile with hopes of something more sturdy than reeds and
mud, whose innovative dentistry was still no match for ours, who crave barriers
for a lie we made the mistake of giving a name, whose adrenaline rush is frankly
both unfair and embarrassing, but useful in a pinch, and who hasn’t been in one
of those?
But who guessed that
those bricks would one day evolve to build for us great Giza and many, many
walls, whose facades at times would be decorated,
Or painted with crude
taunts, lives of their own, who were written by the young and the angry and
bored officers of the law, whatever the difference may be, whose gap-toothed
grins burned so many to death in too many ways to count, who bleed, or fall
into shock, or vanish from the face of this Earth, whose veins aren’t showing
like they used to, who in an uninspired twist of fate was, in a way,
responsible for its own fate, whose bounty was too good to resist, who could
never resist the pull of anything and collapse like neglected ancient tombs,
whose hidden treasures were never good enough for the hands and mouths of men,
who hunted, whose mysterious trauma could never be dealt with, who instead chose
to fashion bricks and build palisades block by block in an uncompromised delirium, whose glue-huffing kinsmen have gotten well out of control,
who first gave fear its cursed name and tricked us into idolatry,
Who rides on the broken backs
of billions, too late for a four-star ending, we, who never trust gleaming white
smiles, oh and just remember, if I may quote the Devil, it’s off to work, or it’s off
to jail.
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