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Aug 2017
Donald Trump was elected President of those United States,

He said to his household: Stay here awhile, I notice a fire..."
-Sheik Al Jilani

The people hate him, the nation opposes him,

Perhaps I shall bring you news of it."
-Sheik Al Jilani

Iraq is the world's second largest source of proven oil reserves...

Hold your tongue! You have no common sense! Your house on the river Tigris and yet you are dying of thirst?
-Sheik Al Jilani

just two steps from
everything

everything
O' seeker

hereafter
            See,
                          -Me.­

Two steps removed...

                                                    ­  -right?





Coming home in a Baghdad Slater...bleary yet with sight.
David John Mowers
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David John Mowers  43/M/Raleigh
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