Lee Hadden writes: ” The Washington Post has a snippet, called “Life is Short:
Autobiography as Haiku.” Here is an entry:
I work in a library. One day I was scanning the library card of a young woman who
suddenly asked me if I knew Hindi. I thought she looked Pakistani. Laughing, I told her
that I knew not only Hindi but also Punjabi, Urdu and a little Farsi and that I was from
Lahore. She was from Peshawar, which I told her was my wife’s home, too. Then the
9-year-old boy with her chirped: “But now we are enemies.” For all our recognition of
shared history and culture dating a thousand years, the boy knew the emperor was quite
naked.
See The Washington Post for more.
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