Letter 5: A Letter with No Aspirations of Reaching Anyone
Letters From The Ground 5: A Letter with No Aspirations of Reaching Anyone From: Hashem Hashem (Translated by Joelle Hatem) To: Junaid Sarieddeen My friend Junaid, As I said when we last met, I don’t want this letter to reach anyone, particularly foreigners. It’s not despair or a way of taking a stand. I really don’t have anything more to say to them other than my ready-made answer that I’ve been copying and pasting lately: “I’m okay, safe and sound. Thank you.” What does the ant say to the giraffe? The sound does not go through in the first place. If I have a minute to write, I’d rather write to you, to Sahar or to my cats even – I might write to the neighborhood cat, Poussy, whose absence has been a concern of mine. It’s been months since I’ve seen her. This cat is naughty. She hooked up with every single male in the neighborhood. Every time I saw her, she was either pregnant or had just had a litter. I adopted one of her kittens a while ago and I called her “Laymou...