A Post Script ...by Layla Anwar July 31, 2010
http://uruknet.info/?p=m68467&hd=&size=1&l=ePostscript. I have not used that word in ages...
A postscript -- there is a script and there is a post script, another script that comes after the main script...
What I retain is the word - script.
I have affinities with this word - script. Maybe because deep down I believe we are all living out a script...a personal script, a collective script...and I don't understand how come no one has ever paid attention to the script...
I am not trying to be pedantic or anything...seriously. Am just interested in scripts...
I was asked today what's the postscript for Iraq ? The person who asked me this question formulated it in good faith - ok she was a foreigner, but still in good faith. (it happens sometimes i.e to be a foreigner and in good faith). She said she wanted to understand...
I said - understand what ?
She said - understand, now that the "dictatorship" is over and done with, how come people in Iraq are still massacred daily...after 7 years of American "liberation"
I told her it was postscript. She did not understand what I meant...
I felt I had to go back to square 1, square zero...and I could not be bothered..
Over 7 years have elapsed, and thousands of dead and I was expected to go back to square 1, square zero, square infinity...
She said - you're from there, you must know...
I said - I did know but how much of a difference would it make if she understood or not ?!
She said she was curious...she wanted to understand why all this blood, now that the "dictatorship" was over.
I tried to keep it simple...
I said - Iraqi blood is still being spilled, maybe because dictatorship has only just begun...
She was at loss, she did not understand...
Only those who have written the script will, and only those who live the postscript do...
Painting : Iraqi female artist, Betool Fekaiki.
