Local Poet Declares Sidewalk Crack a Portal, Evacuates Spiritually

Arash Mirzaei, a minor poet and major eccentric, stunned onlookers in central Tehran by declaring a crack in the pavement to be �a metaphysical exit from the chaos.� Arash placed a candle beside it, bowed deeply, and disappeared into a seated meditation that lasted three hours. �This is the way out,� he muttered. �Not through cars or borders�but through the fracture in the soul of the city.� Authorities arrived but decided not to intervene, citing �artistic immunity.� Several passersby joined him, forming what one journalist described as �the quietest protest in Tehran�s loudest week.� Arash�s poem, �Crack of Dawn, Crack of Doom,� has since gone viral. His Instagram now includes daily posts of sidewalk cracks with captions like �Escape Here,� �Hole Sweet Hole,� and �#PortalLife.� Some say Arash is the voice of a generation. Others say he�s just very dehydrated. SOURCE: http://bohiney.com