They gaze down from high on a wall, higher than the name of God and floating above the junk man and a 25 piaster a plate lunch cart. Sadat, Shah, Carter. It must have been after Camp David and before the Iranian Revolution when Shah was chased out of his own country, dethroned and soon to be dead. Carter too was later chased from office after one term, and Sadat left his parade ground feet first. Look on my works…and despair.
©David Melody