I wanted to expose what was happening, but I feared reprisals from the guards, so my aunt smuggled my writing out of the visitation room, typed them up and emailed them to my parents in Cheshire.
"When I was doing both my things – smuggling and concerts – I considered them crusades.
We all have the unknown plant we call "Arthur's weed" that grows in my uncle's garden in England that my mother smuggled out 10 years ago (probably violating a host of international laws).
He said, 'My parents smuggled me out, and I went from Turkey to Lesbos on a boat that started sinking.' The people smugglers attempted to keep the boat afloat by throwing off all the unaccompanied boys to drown.
My friends smuggle drugs because they haven't studied and they don't think about the consequences.
My friends smuggle drugs because they haven't studied, and they don't think about the consequences.
My mother had once told me that the family name "Zarbatany" actually derived from a type of gun called the Zarbatan, which my ancestors smuggled for the Ottoman Empire.
The crossing into Iran was tense: it would have been tenser had I known three of my group were smuggling in a handgun to the Shah's opposition.
"In college I paid my bills by smuggling art books across the border from Tecnologico de Monterrey," he continues now for real.
