Columbia, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Memories of father,
Growing over the years,
Haunted by
Good and bad memories,
Coming to terms with life
With alcoholism and depression,
Writing of The Dream Songs,
Belonging to the Confessional school of poetry,
The beards flowing,
Closing of the chapter otherwise
How to take to,
Take to!
Looking likeA tattoo himself.The scorpion manGoing withThe scorpionsMasculine and junglee.
Think I,I aboutA woman’s,Woman’s lifeThink I,I about,Keep,Keep I thinking.How had beenShe,How is sheNow,How had she been,How,How is she now,Now?
Guiding researches in India,Getting awards and prizes from the Govt.,The media covering themAnd after having countless papers and poems,I am still in the bracket ofAnd they do not know me,How can it be, sir,You say it please,Is it as I am in countryside?
And English-Jewish motherMalouf talks of family photographsAs a gallery of ghostsIn the frame-work of time,Maiden auntsWith lack-lustre, looking pale,Journeys with stars,Mythologies with make-believe talesTo tell.
Funny and punning,Rhyming and complimenting.A word coinerBreaking and joining,Dovetailing,Always playing and punning with words.A poet frivolousLight and nonsensicalPlayingAnd flirting with poesy and rhymes.
Who never wanted to make youAn addict,Where your friendsWho developed the habit in youAnd leaving you in abject povertyAnd bad state,Fled they awayAnd now you selling the things for the intoxicants,Trying every sort of addictionAnd instead of it, sleep is not on the eyes,You keepong half-awake and babbling,Your eyes red withWhich you understand it not.
