Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim Nor Hindu in India

"To be no part of this hate is deprivation.
Never could I claim a circumcised butcher
Mangled a child out of my arms, never rave
At the milk-bibing, grass-guzzing hypocrite
Who pulled off my mother's voluminous
Robes and sliced away at her dugs.
Planets focus their fires
Into a worm of destruction
Edging along the continent. Bodies
Turn ashen and shrivel. I
Only burn my tail"
-Gieve Patel

2 comments:

Unknown said...

We want a superb summary of this

readings said...

is this the complete poem? if not, please post the full version