Saturday, August 30, 2008

this is no poetry

these thickset days
are fizzling down
quick, especially


in the night air
the eyes bespeak
atrocities , unspeakable

the sound of leaves
whizzing through the thick
morning air, leafing


pages in weighty scriptures
ambivalent answers to
disjointed questions, unasked


celluloid horror
of a twelveyear-old girl
lying spreadeagled, shrieking


you lie spreadeagled in
the Mumbai-Hyderabad overnight
Volvo sleeperette ,re-living

what all are the horrors
in the suburban train
three living-dead humans
watching a twelveyear-old
dying of love.

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