way into the updated landay. >> how much simpler can love be? let's get engaged now. text me. >> brown: what happens to this form in the future? is it your sense that it might die off because of the changes? or does it have a life? >> i asked one of the leading novelists in afghanistan, mustafa salek, what he thought, what will happen to the landay now that they talk about the internet, facebook, drones. will it kill them? and he said just the opposite. they're being traded and they are changing, being remixed like rap at rapid speed, and people love them. the landay is supposed to communicate in the most natural language the truth of afghan life. so i found my assumptions about the death of the landay being absolutely confounded by what afghans said themselves. >> brown: just another assumption confounded in this rare look behind the veil. for the record, "poetry" magazine, which is featuring the landays this month, is produced by the poetry foundation, which helps support our coverage. and there's more on all of this online, where photographer