he wokein no small measure
assisted by october his perpetually in-heat feral clawing at the walls the screened windows woken from a wavering flamelike dream a ribbon etched with manmade manmade manmade a strict font on and on and on and through its
sheer fabric to its other side seeing forged metal tools pass flinted
arrowheads spearpoints pass handhoed fields felled trees hacked stumps
pass
then with a crisp turn of
the wrist manmade upside down trembling then effacing fading then writover upright again a Teutonic twist menschmade unmenschmade menschmade menschunmade madeamen madeamended madeamen madeAmen Amen ahmen
ahmenmade Ahmenmade Ahmadmanmade Ahmadmanmade menschmade and on and on and on ludicrous
confused he threw his hands up to
his eyes halfbelieving he was blindfolded by film
of course nothing was over themnothing swathed his head
the length ran in his eyesdreamed
in them
all he could do was wait wait for the hypnagogic suggestion or insult
to evaporate on its own
he didnt mind
similar veilsthough typically
panoramic played out virtually every day
as if a play acted on a stage or watched
on a television or theatre screen senthe
assumed to bemuse and entertain him
he wasnt critical
he accepted what he was given as
a matter of course and marveled at his fortunehis ad hoc gifts
Amen ahmen ahmenmade Ahmadmanmade Ahmad?
the strand winding through his eyes was probably the child or orphan or vagrant
of his recent readings Persias Muhammad
ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi The House of Wisdom Dār al-Ḥikma where he studied mathematics and astronomy and whose text were shared and delivered to Europe by religious men which helped Western Civilisation drag itself out of the Dark Ages into The Enlightenment or him nipping at the heels of the Fall of the Ottoman Empire atthe First World Wars end or really or what seems the work of activist or political jurists on the Supreme Court who upheld the Fakers Muslim travel ban
any one
of the three or all may have been formative to the mischievous unwinding in his
eyes
he wasnt one to judge what his unconscious revealed
such stern currents if he got into their midst they might
easily drag him away
he liked where he was
eyes open
ear to the ground
aware
not ignorant
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