Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Burning Car in Baghdad
The
delusion that by force you can impose the Millennium on the human race is one
of the most dangerous delusions in existence.
― Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad
In the center of Baghdad a burning car
Illuminates long centuries of pain
Inflicted by schemes of improvement upon
A city of scholarship, wisdom, and art
Militias, commanders, air-strikes, and bombs
So clever that they can single out one car
Without harming another car at the traffic light -
And somehow this will make the world all better
Dullard journalists will type “tit-for-tat”
Because they don’t know anything else to say
And neither do I
