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sweetmeats, cow & me
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[Written during a visit to India during March 2013.]

in the lane

a cow with severed tail

& leaking blood

 

across the way

the cramped internet café

where young men with lean wrists

receive & emit

signals

via flickering screens

 

ignore the droves of flies, i say

& walk on

sweating in the heat

 

turn the corner

on a counter

sweetmeats, finely crafted

red, orange, beige

seductively poses

in a glass box

 

nearby, the gurgling gutter

& polluted water

mosquitoes move in squadrons

seeking the nectar

of our veins

 

incredible india

incredible jamalpur

    in my heart

    the ganges flows

    & ancient forces brood

 

 


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 Reviews of "sweetmeats, cow & me"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 23, 2013
I have not been to India, but I have been to Pakistan and Bangladesh. Your descriptions are moving of the harsh environment where scholarship and excellence flourishes amid the pollution and degradation. The only sweet treats that I saw tended to be covered with flies. Still, the food is fantastic and so are the sights.

And Indian professor, a friend and colleague, once gave us a lesson on the economic problems of India. He summed it up in one word, “Cow.”

Ron


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