the hero of our time

we are faceless..

our drivers wear black masks..

a noose dances in front of our eyes..

eerie and hallucinating..

our time is a strange one, my friend...

it is a gambler ...

our laments fall aside in the saloons of this city

with locks of dead hair..

our genitals too fall off

uncared for.....

when 

we have begun to produce robots for progeny...

what are these vestiges for...

our paths wind long in the shade of green trees

towards goals fixed by someone else 

for someone else..

it could also be the national highway you are now standing upon..

it was constructed tearing asunder the heart of a silent village

you are standing on its corpse...

our time is a gamer, dear friend...

the hero of our times 

is the smiling guy

bending over for the whippings he gets 

on his bare back..

he pays in silver coins for these gifts 

without a grumble..

watches without pain 

bull dozers flatten his hard earned house..

cleans the private parts of the men 

who piss on his well of drinking water..

our time is a gamer...

its cross section reveals 

roads that are mirror images 

on which the faceless men 

walk

indistinguishable..

our time walks over the unheard wail

of the last living poet 

the last man of his dying mother language..

his poems lie by..

unread ..

un translated..

a noose dances in front of us,

eerie and hallucinating..

the farmer who died in it 

had a FACE ..

which we have now 

forgotten CONVENIENTLY..

in memory of the millions of farmers who committed suicide this year

in a rapidly developing economy called india..

which has all the time and space  for antilas and taj hotels... 

Reviews

[Fabian G. Franklin]

FABULOUS WORK! 100% and going into my favorites!

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. oh, i am moved beyond measure ... perhaps, i haven't shared this with you earlier ... but kalahandi especially is a very significant part of my aspirations for national development ... personally speaking, however, i just wouldn't want to go the taj way ... it's not about the taj ... and i don't want to be in denial about what can be accomplished and what can't ... for instance ... our friends in developed countries ... right here in the cafe ... can't live in the conditions that we can live in ... so i wouldn't go there ... my concern is education and health care ... and my focus is ... getting to a point or a solution where education and healthcare are facilitated ... and i mean the kind of education that takes care of livelihood issues ...

. my absconding soul mate ... eben ... worked in kashmir ... micro financing small projects ... and they don't care about the taj ... and there's no point in bringing it up and rubbing salt in their wounds ... steven covey said "keep the main thing the main thing" ... and i firmly believe in that ... i think that educated india is doing jack s**t for uneducated india ... and words and poetry are very poignant ... but it's ultimately only actions ... and constructive ones ... that can help ...