5 years ago today...
Five years ago today
This stupid evil heinous wretched illegal intentional war was started.
I learned the expected news of the invasion from my brother Garret
who beeped in on the call waiting,
A brief call:
"We are bombing Iraq"
as I was on the phone with my ex
One of our first conversations after the breakup
and my ex right then informed me
he was dating this person
who I disliked
who I had fooled around with during the breaking up
who my ex did not want me seeing
who I had dismissed as not dateable
who I introduced to him
The strange juxtaposition --
personal devastation and national devastation:
My own and America's and Iraq's
unfolding before my eyes and ears
simultaneously
as I realized that my ex had completely moved on from our mutual break-up
and I was still thinking about it every single day.
And we just started a war.
And right then, the war inside my head got really bad.