Showing posts with label Class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Class. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Violent Breaking



The young black boy
Stood waiting in the dark
He watched the rich woman arrive alone
With her white, fleshy arms,
Slightly sagging breasts
And middle-aged flabby body,
He watched her jog
Her breasts moving rhythmically
As she receded
He saw a world moving away from him,
Not noticing him, not aware that he stood there
Pulsating his youth,
Dark upon dark, invisible.
He realized the distance between the two worlds
A touch could perhaps break this brutal world
It could happen... violently.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Watch,Man


Old Hindi songs
Wafting from a ramshackle radio
To keep company to the night watchman,
He watches us with his shy eyes
Dark holes of fear and greed.
We drift past him,
Carrying vegetables, books, babies.
Our blind eyes, never seeing him.
Lying in the cold, winter nights
Away from his young wife's warm body
Left alone in his little hut
Away from our cagey, warm flats.

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