“Drive me to the checkpoint at the entrance to the compound”: It’s winter in Kabul in 2002 and I’m in the back seat. Looking out, I see cartography superimposed on Shar-e-naw streets, contours and magnitudes inadequate to the land that they meet...
I’m just here for a moment: I’m just here on rotation, idealist months in the desert. America spins.
We pass through: sepoys wave us over the threshold to the UN zone. I could be anywhere and so could you, waiting for me outside the same western rooms in which you’ve tried to sleep in Laos and Khartoum as your plans go to naught, dizzy with fever: the occident, too, inflamed and in rot.
I’m just here for a moment: I’m just here on rotation, idling drunk in the desert. America spins.
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