in its heart,
iraq is not a country.
lines are lost in shifting
desert sands &
nomads are no respecters of
boundaries.
the oil beneath the ground
does not belong to all,
but to a very
few.
& the children of Islam
are fiercely divided among
themselves.
iraq is pot-boiling historical
fiction––
&, as the young 21st century
has surely proven––
countries have no
hearts.