Fax Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Fax

For years, lived in Dubai,
What if I had remained
And dealt with the tires,
Spare parts, Mercedes.

Wonder if would have guts
To do what I have done.

Was helpful to the others
With the trucks, storage,
Exchanging the labels
On the items purchased
From those forbidden,
Like the United States.

We ordered, printed
New and false labels.

Saw the Tehran's mullahs
As donkeys, a few dumb,
We repacked the items
And put in containers
With new manifests
And shipped them to Iran.

Brainless has a tongue
To bray, howl, bark.

Said no to fax machines
To toughen censoring,
Kill the nation's liberty.

I opposed such choking
So joined in smuggling.

I bought and imported
Many parts for buyers
Forced into a darkness
To converse in silence,
By signal and cyphered,
Send info, add knowledge.