To Poop Among The Beasts

250 miles from mainland Yemen, where women are occasionally beheaded for sorcery and American drone strikes target a flourishing al-Qaeda contingent… 50 miles from Somalia, whose waters are dotted with pirate ships… on as island the size of Rhode Island, home to tarantulas, scorpions and centipedes found nowhere else on Earth… I will poop under the stars like a wild animal.