So what’s with this being shot in the heart? Neda gets shot in the heart and so we are told does Sohrab. Being shot in the heart is a bloody affair. We watched how the explosion of arteries squirts the blood out of every orifice.
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STORY
May I change the course of their fate?
Here comes I, Mother Simorq, primordial bird-woman, with wisdom without death, whence of life within and out. Solar essence of Great Goddess, True Healer of body and mind, paladin of the ancient Persian Mysteries and paragon of free-thinking, self-knowledge and transformation, I am likewise a Persian phoenix of ceaseless radiance, formerly known as rainbow-coloured Senmurv. Composite and woman-faced, I have the head of a snarling dog representing the angel Surush, voice of conscience. My fragrance of musk wafts on the world, reviving hearts. Towering as thirty birds and armed with three-clawed paws, I hold my grip on preys as big as gorillas and bear them away
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POETRY
When the eyes of the living hold no more light than the dead
and ignorance makes sport of human dignity,
when the marksman lifts his weapon’s scope to hollow eye
and surrenders his soul to smoke and mirrors,
when a human body falters at the border, barbed,
between fragile meaning and momentary meat,
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