<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px;"><i>Sometimes you pick up the newspaper and you think it’s Cain and Abel out there. But sometimes it feels as though it’s Cain against Cain. You can’t tell who’s the good guy.</i></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Nadeem Aslam</i></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Brothers</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">When there's not enough to eat,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">nothing to feed the spirit,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">to clothe the mind in novelty,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">we wander.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Migratory animals, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">We step into occupied</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Territory, call it our own,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Plant crops, rape</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The women, the land.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">We reap our rewards, turn</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Blind to acrimony,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Centuries of injury.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Our defeated brothers and sisters</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Plant revenge, seek to sow</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Justice. What god</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Exalts one brother over</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">The other? Blesses one then,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Curses the other</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">So peace can never</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">be possible?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">In all of us: a Cain, </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">c</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">ondemned by god—</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Rejected, vilified brother,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Jealous of our brother, made so </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">By our jealous god.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rebecca del Rio</span></div></body></html>