A Tire not yet on Fire

A Tire not yet on Fire

Pieces of Literary Writings

By:  Waqas Al-Sadiq

 What is the 'tire'? Suddenly, the tire has become an unusual event on the streets that bystanders are straying from it and cars are avoiding it. The beggar is catching sight of it and making sure it is not on fire, and then standing on the other sidewalk. The shopkeepers are looking at it with apprehension and preparing the locks in anticipation to close their shops. The old man sitting in front of his house swears that this tire is demonic and justifies his speech that it has appeared suddenly without being placed by a particular person. The old man sitting with him said "My goodness", but the tire did not disappear. Two girls stood next to the tire and took a Selfie. A few men went through it laughing and one of them made a military salute to it. A woman saw it from afar and walked into the neighborhood to make it the subject of her chatter in all the houses she entered. All the neighborhood women knew that there was a tire that had not yet on fire in the high street. Every woman gave her son a match- box and recommended him to receive the honor of setting the tire on fire. All the boys of the neighborhood came out with matchboxes in their pockets. At the entrance of the neighborhood, there were six Land Cruisers with eighty policemen, fifty Kalashnikov rifles and twenty tear gas guns. They were targeting something specific. A tire at the end of the street that not yet on fire.