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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Lest the neonates are famished
Oh Mother! You birth these gluttonous grafters Who through their avarice Suck dry your milk In no time You’ll retire With your flappy breast When you are tired Having nothing to feed The neonates with Who will nourish you That … Continue reading
Wither
greying out awash and fading eye lashes wither pink smeared cement under foot cauterizing tides of stemming fancy black hole empty Ambrose Thompson
I’m a Prostitute
In actions I believe though it’s a forceful belief In love, I go mute ’cause I’m a prostitute Parents left when I was twelve not a penny in our shelve Family lent some hands But only to remove my pants … Continue reading
Lost in time
Now his foes yawn throughout the day and their table craves for a flower vase and a drop box. They have killed the unicorn! But their hands are stainless but their eyes are daisy. Arindam Banerjee
I am only I
You are Attired and Arrayed and Assured in your conspicuous excellence, And I am only I Think, imagine, picture yourself as a tree of great shade See in your mind its immensity Its mighty boughs and the birds among them. … Continue reading
Holding Almost
As one gets older Getting older seems to change. Time no longer passes The way a car passes, Getting smaller in the distance, Concentrating, Consolidating; the thing That passed a moment ago And the spot that dots the road’s end … Continue reading
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