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Sukoon-Mag-Issue-6-S-2015
Sukoon-Mag-Issue-6-S-2015
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NIDAL<br />
...just so...<br />
They slowly rise to <strong>the</strong>ir feet<br />
NIDAL<br />
...just so someth<strong>in</strong>g is left st<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g at dawn. Fajer.<br />
He sits cross-legged on <strong>the</strong> stage.<br />
GIRL<br />
At dawn, he was sitt<strong>in</strong>g outside...<br />
NIDAL<br />
...twenty feet <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> mosque wait<strong>in</strong>g for prayers to<br />
start.<br />
GIRL<br />
At dawn, <strong>the</strong>y took him. Later, <strong>the</strong>y hit him. They<br />
argued about hitt<strong>in</strong>g him more. Hitt<strong>in</strong>g him more, <strong>the</strong>y<br />
decided. His small body on its side.<br />
NIDAL<br />
How do you burn a body? They didn’t know. Burn<strong>in</strong>g my<br />
body, <strong>the</strong>y learned.<br />
GIRL<br />
I dreamed him. Even as <strong>the</strong>y found him, even <strong>the</strong>n, I<br />
dreamed him <strong>and</strong> it was <strong>the</strong> dream that brought me here.<br />
I had never up <strong>and</strong> gone anywhere. I up <strong>and</strong> came here.<br />
BLACKOUT<br />
They exit <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> dark.<br />
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