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I'm only fluent in English, although I’ve spent most of my adult life in West Africa and the Middle East. I married at twenty-one when my wife was sixteen. We've had six sons and four daughters in our thirty-some years together. After being expelled from school at sixteen, I lasted three months in the Army. Then, I got my equivalency and graduated university at twenty-two. Some time later, I also dropped out of seminary after spending a few years studying archaic languages and Reformed theology.
I’ve always been self-employed, mostly working in war-torn deserts and jungles. Our family is in the midst of the Iraq war, where my oldest sons and I work as ‘carpetbaggers', a term coined after the US civil war from the carpet bags used by entrepreneurs as inexpensive luggage. It's a derogatory term, suggesting an exploiter who does not plan to stay and is used to describe outsiders attempting to gain political office or economic advantage, especially in areas (thematically or geographically) to which they previously had no connection. That just about sums up my work.
I'm only fluent in English, although I’ve spent most of my adult life in West Africa and the Middle East. I married at twenty-one when my wife was sixteen. We've had six sons and four daughters in our thirty-some years together. After being expelled from school at sixteen, I lasted three months in the Army. Then, I got my equivalency and graduated university at twenty-two. Some time later, I also dropped out of seminary after spending a few years studying archaic languages and Reformed theology.
I’ve always been self-employed, mostly working in war-torn deserts and jungles. Our family is in the midst of the Iraq war, where my oldest sons and I work as ‘carpetbaggers', a term coined after the US civil war from the carpet bags used by entrepreneurs as inexpensive luggage. It's a derogatory term, suggesting an exploiter who does not plan to stay and is used to describe outsiders attempting to gain political office or economic advantage, especially in areas (thematically or geographically) to which they previously had no connection. That just about sums up my work.
- Member since July 18, 2007.
- I'm a malachite opening poet for 437 comments.
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, and quote is "I think I am, therefore, I am. I think". - I am a 53 year old man (Iraq)
- When I'm not writing, I'm a 'carpetbagger' in the Middle East.
- I support the site as a gold member
- I am in the groups Rhyme and Meter Workshop
- I have 437 comments, 28 poems, 4 stories
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You’re a ‘dem fine woman’, full of life and lots of fun,
and It’s so nice pretending our beginning is still true. -
I talked with Tommy the other night
as he slurred his words and tried to sound ‘good’.20 lines, 11 comments, August 19. In Friendship, Childhood -
Don’t cry for the ones who died.
In five years, Baghdad has eight months of peace. -
Narcistic and neurotic,
old Procrustus was psychotic;
My Stories
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I have it from good sources, that the most skilled woodworkers in the world are ‘pattern makers’. Two of them have been close friends of m
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Unintentionally, I walked into a certain port city hotel in the Persian Gulf a few years ago. As I wandered to a table, the power of aggressive female sensuality bombarded me from every side while young women from all over th859 lines, 4 comments, January 10, 2008. In 600-2000 words, Women
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For the past 10 days it seems like all I'm doing is waiting. I've been stuck in this trailer in the middle of the desert ... waiting and waiting. I'm either waiting for customers to pay their bills so I can Western Union cash760 lines, 1 comment, January 8, 2008. In 600-2000 words, Depression
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Eric Marsh on September 12you have a great page my friend...i love your quote..lol. "I think I am, therefore, I am. I think"...superb..Descartes eat your heart out lol
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FransB : I am on September 8taken by your description on your authors page. I sense humbleness as well as a need to let you know I appreciate you. Blessings. Frans
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Mystical-Ways on February 13why hello there sir. I noticed one of your poems "A piece in baghdad" and I wanted to recomend a book to you. the "kite runner" . its a realy good book and i thought you will enjoy. I am also an arab and i truley understand the way you feel about baghdad ( im not as passionate as you about it though but either way I do feel strongly about it))
well, I have to say I love your username "sultan" Very clever! -
Jalalbad on December 24, 2007happy holidays to you and blessings in the coming year.
