Have you,
You
Thought about
Them,
Those
Cleaning
Latrines?
And if
They don’t,
What
Will it
Happen,
If
They
Don’t
Latrines?
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Had I an English wife,
I would have been surely a famous poet,But I am helpless nowAs because the other incumbentSpeaks she in a vernacular,But threatens to finish my manuscriptsBy putting into the earthen oven,That countryside, foolish rustic lady,I mean my just literate country wifeAsking me to take to the fairs and the cinema halls,Asking me to brings the cosmetics…
There on the river bed of
Isaw my eldest brotherBurning on the funeral pyre.The logs kept it burning,Turned to coal and ashesAnd the body disfigured itAll into nothingness.
Walt Whitman
Or a visionaryOr a dreamer?
The idols of Ganesha
Small-small idolsThe gypsy boys and girlsSelling,Small-small poor gypsy boys and girlsSmall-small Ganeshas.
Where Kailash,
Where Shankara?
An olden statue of Radha and Krishna,
And of yore,Centuries old,Built ago,If the spade clinks overAnd the digger stumbles overAnd gifts it toA thing of historiography and museumlogy,How to view it,Hold into the hands of mine?O, a statue of gold, pure gold,Looking blacklyOr coated so,But of pure gold,Weighing to croresIn current valuation,Suppose that find youA statue historical, museumlogical,How to hold itInto the…