So that the memory does not die

 Abbas Al-Anbouri

I was not yet thirteen years old, the day the so-called knight of the Arab nation decided to invade one of his brothers,
 after annihilating tens of thousands of his people in a senseless war that lasted for eight years. On that day,
 she grabbed my neck - with an interval of no more than three months - with the pliers of “orphanage and siege.”
The cruelest thing a person can be raised in such years; Dozens of events took place after August 2, 
1990, but experiencing the stifling economic siege with all its details and complications remained one of the harshest things that have ever
 happened in my memory and the memory of the majority of Iraqis, who lived through the conditions of the siege and suffered from its fire in the 1990s.
Transient events in an individual’s life, despite their influence on the formation and formation of the human personality,
 and their role in crystallizing the general characteristics of society, remain within the realm of possibility to overcome their negative effects.
As for the general challenges facing society as a whole, they cannot be overcome without a deconstructive, analytical, and accurate study.
 To read the events, to know the effects, and the resulting consequences,
It is compressed with a gas whose origin we do not know, and with flavors that we convince ourselves are similar to the original taste. We - alone - know how to fill our stomachs with (eggplant and potatoes) fried in thick cooking oil, which clings to the bottom and sides of the mouth, and we sweeten our days with (bread) fried in oil and dipped in (molasses). We also know how home furniture can be sold. For the family to live on the land in order to secure a living.
 they must be taken into consideration by decision-makers and those who make the state’s general policies.
We are those who have tasted the bitterness of (brown bread), and heard the condescending voices of (the roundabout) in the morning and evening: 
(dry bread, bran, wheat for sale), we - alone - possess a special memory, which is sweetened by (Pepsi) bottled locally with artificial colors.