Seventh Note to “Khoram An Roz”

Exile and exodus, after all, is the direct result and outcome of the Westerner’s inability to keep the peace in the world. It’s as simple as that. It’s a sin to be here in the West if you’re a monotheist. But the beloved’s beautiful hair and being able to caress it out of love is more important than dogma and doctrine and theology and exoteric religion and all the rest:

گر چه دانم که به جایی نبرد راه غریب
من به بوی سر آن زلف پریشان بروم

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