In the Middle East the issue of tradition
power and politics take up unusual
proportions of Byzantine logistics
as in particular when the antagonists
play a lethal game of hide and seek where
the predatory cat lures the wary mouse
within striking distance and the question
of who is more guilty of assaulting justice
the assassin or the embezzler balancing the
power of royal authority and privilege
against the stealth culprit cockily assuming
his illicit gains will go unnoticed. In exile
he has found temporarily fraught haven
his life complicated by the certainty that
at some time in the future his executioners
will arrive and his refuge will be as nothing.
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