Tomorrow I am taking a plane. A plane to the Middle East at that. It feels very defiant. In fact, I feel defiant just riding the metros. In a crowded metro i’ll get a strange feeling like, hey it would be easy for someone to walk in here with a buncha bombs strapped to him or a siphon of chemical weapons and kill us all. And strangely enough i’m not really afraid, more defiant. Like “Oh Yeah? Well fuck you i’ll ride the metro. Fuck you i’ll take a plane. Me American and Jewish and Turkish (i don’t think you can rack up more enemies than that in three adjectives). Yeah, Fuck You.” That’s what i think to myself.
And there’s a new song —> there, it’s over there —> (and down a bit).
New Angeles Monthly, June 2008
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Nil by Mouth is written by Neille Ilel. Neille is a writer, reporter and user interface specialist in Los Angeles. If you think that's a lot, she's also got a host of meandering sidelines including improv comedy, tennis, cooking, drawing and thinking about learning to play the guitar.
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