Chewing qat, defecting to South Yemen

This is my favorite symbol of the Southern Secessionist Movement in Yemen and a totem picture of mine:  young secessionists sitting under a graffiti of the South Yemen flag, chewing qat.

Lebanon’s Daily Star today kindly sent me two more images, showing Yemeni soldiers defecting to the South, in similar poses, chewing qat.  

Would it be a better world if all the world chewed qat?  

We wouldn’t get much done, and Aldous Huxley correctly pointed out that those who do nothing at least do no harm: a message that 20th Century million-killers -- doers, one and all -- and those they burned, maimed, twisted on racks ’til sinews gave way, split all ends up, buried alive, did all manner of evil to,  

could have profited from.

And se

 Chewing qat; plotting secession in  South Yemen

For Dylan Thomas, And Death Shall Have do Dominion, 

from which fragments are taken. . .