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emotions, I thought, like an affair in a sense; Not

even ants wage such wars within their

consummate ways; they eat, crawl endlessly,

copulate in droves and instil some wondrous

feeling in people, who call themselves poets, I

reminisce of as I continued walking the dark

African night. I was more than enlivened by the

thought of millions of happenings all developing

simultaneously and the Ant-like feeling that

could manifest in this very thought, I would too

easily instruct the wind if I had to, but I have no

desire, I thought to myself, beside the

consideration that doing this would prohibit an

ability to just watch happenings unfold. By this;

broken cars become worlds; fights between

strangers; wars. I had been walking at least two

hours without concern for time, I realized, just

these feelings swelling at will. I picked up a rock,

large enough to heave and large enough to create

havoc (I reckoned), and I held it in my hand. The

sight of this rather large SUV seemed to scream

something at me, and I blasted the rock into the

window. In my periphery I saw a woman walking

on the opposite side of the road, and I didn’t try

to hide what I was doing, I just did it. —You

slept with my wife! I screamed in the broken

Arabic I understood, before walking off. —What

are you doing? Screamed the woman opposite. I

repeated nothing, nor even flinched.

Wonderings of being caught up failed to entice

me, and they never materialized into any other

happenings this night, as I continued walking

back to my place with a distinct feeling of

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