how did you staythis long, in here, like this, they askof me the captive,after release from the dark‘escape’ is more like it thoughI think but I do not speakhard raw bleeding escapefrom long back-breaking captivitythat was called a marriage upon being freethey all deem it fit,those that sympathiseunderstand my agonyfriends, do-gooders, family,aides of mine, they opinewhy did […]
tonight i need no loveyou would have run miles away from my side by nowchasing clouds in rain framed dreamsI have a few chopped limbsand a mangled heart that still beatswhile my dreams lie buried in that which I speakwithout a tongue and yet with a million eyeseyes wise eyes; too many for pure sightI […]
have you wondered whyviolence desires silence?the less you revealthe more blood it can spillwhatever the placewhichever the causeviolence wantsto be felt not heardhave you ever wondered howviolence would lose its punchits drunken highshould each act be followedby a deafening crythat is heard and cared for?if every time he battered heror a bomb was dropped in a […]
the thing about conversationis that it is never completeit cons you into thinkingthat there hangs a totalityin the reaching, stretchingof muscles of the neck, of fingersto touch one another’s thinkingwith words, that the other returnsthings lost to youno one tells you but realiseafter its long overthat you are more halves nowthan ever beforeyet another person […]
you beat down farmersyou beat down the oldyou beat down studentsyou beat down the youngyou beat down the believerswho believe differently, who believeyou beat down the non-believerswho don’t believe in you or yoursyou beat down women, children, loversyou beat down Dalit, Muslims, tribals,you beat down the proud, the poor, the different,you render them naked, powerlessyou […]
I want to walkmy hands swinginglong and freeif these roads were notcobbled eyesbut spun treesflowers would becomefences or paths at my feet I want to suspend thoughtwear old jeanspull that thorn outof her cracked feetan inside out shirtno buttons, no seams I want to walk besidemy daughterthat old woman therewith a heart as youngas a […]