when I heard that on the Base they kill

with Dryboarding (death by asphyxiation),

I thought of the captives,

 

taliban,

yemenites,

 

who were there in that place.

 

i thought, most of all, of my brother José

who is not a taliban or a yemenite,

but does live in the Caribbean,

worlds away from the Base.

 

i don’t deny i thought about my brother

dying every day from asphyxiation.