Monday, August 21, 2017

What more could one ask of Afghanistan?





I certainly hope our Impresario-
in-Chief will feel himself in a 
position to promise us all a res-
toration to greatness in the Af-
ghan textile trade, for our next
few hundred billion. Vestments
and lap throws will mark a high-
er return on investment than we
have achieved so far, in this
longest of all foreign wars,
and might be just the thing to
seize the luxury goods imagina-




I am positively wearing out a
sumptuous but delicate scarf, a
traveling friend brought me from
that redoubt of cashmere grazing. 
I only hope, by now, that this
long-standing skeptic of every
catastrophe he didn't precipit-
ate, himself, will not tamper 
with the war's salubrious prop-
agation of poppies, to say noth-
ing of teas, and other herbs. Or
should we make less light of our
wars, just now, and leave that
confidently to his ministrations? 

























Alexander Calder
Tapestry in jute
1975







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