Hi all,
I have not been active on this list... but here's a poem that I wrote a few months back when I used to work for a newspaper and I would be driven home very late, and this poem germinated on such journeys -
Aniruddha Dutta
Jouissance
People sleeping, sprawled on cold cement
On dust and hot dirt. Body broken up
In happy bits
On a cool spread of white…
I pause, hiccups stuck in my throat
Eyes on the patterned pavement lit under the last halogens
Of night,
Eyes on a fresh puddle of rainwater
On glistening tinfoil, garbage and grass
Mixing with hair… I watch, completely tense
Aware of my own tips and ends
Curdling
How past borders
And markings-off, deprived yet skilled,
Those bodies make it all their own
Under neon,
Beside downed shutters and spare trees.
To think, beside
Moving feet and whirling wheels,
May I lay myself down once? In a pool
Of parts let free of gazes? May I dissolve
Without a pillow? Without shame?
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