Salon.com > Will Boast http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Mad Dog’s Daughter” by Will Boast http://www.salon.com/2011/08/30/mad_dog_s_daughter/ http://www.salon.com/2011/08/30/mad_dog_s_daughter/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:08:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/2011/08/29/mad_dog_s_daughter It has been 25 years since the imperialists last attacked me. Today, my Hana, you would've been a young woman. I would like to have seen your 30th birthday. We would've celebrated in a Bedouin tent in the desert, not in this hell of a city. A man can't breathe when he's lost in the streets of this city, never mind how he feels hiding in these tunnels. They attacked from the air, my Hana; I could not protect you from their cowardice. Hana, my other children are traitors and failures. But I have forgiven them. They squander their inheritance on football and cars and making incomprehensible movies. They beat their girlfriends and get caught beating servants. They plot against me. (Even then, I forgive them.) Now all my children, it seems, are ungrateful and turn against me. The world has never known such an act of forgiveness as I'm asked to make. And they ask it of a poor Bedouin without even a birth certificate, a Bedouin who began his journey with only his staff and his dignity, a poor, solitary Bedouin who has tried to lead his children out of this hell of a city and now must flee it alone.

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