The Kite Runner-Novel slingshot Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

By Freeyad Ibrahim

It is rather a machine-gun-slingshot:
(The slingshot made an thwiiiiiii sound,)
Writes the Afghan author
(The 12 year old boy released the cup,
Then Assef fell down screaming
with his hand palm squeezed against his right eye
out which blood oozed.)
Be just and fair,
I address especially those who know what a slingshot is
and ask them: has anyone ever feared a slingshot?
Is there any slingshot that can throw a stone
in the size of a walnut? !
correctness is:
No bigger than a half walnut.
Anyone has ever used slingshot,
must have laughed, bitterly
The essential question is:
A slingshot is not a weapon,
it is rather a play tool used by children
to knock down, if lucky,
a sparrow from a tree or a telephone cable.
Then how it could, possibly, be used in a fight?
If you ever will use it in a fighting,
the chance to hit the target is one percent 01%.
And you cannot choose a small organ as an eye to hit
The only choice is to shoot at random
at the whole body.
Even in this case,
the stone misses its target almost always,
because at the moment you release the cup,
the target has changed its position, shifted place.

Fryad Hugo