Photograph by Dave Wilson, Kuwait; 1991
Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road
The road winding among the mountains
Which are mountains of rock without water
If there were water we should stop and drink
Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think
Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand
If there were only water amongst the rock
Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
There is not even silence in the mountains
But dry sterile thunder without rain...
T.S. Eliot; The Wasteland (1922)