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Poetry

How to Say, Salaam?

The prelude was short.
I say I am going to die in your hands.
What Akhmatova will say?

I solemnly declare, my
date has arrived. I want to give, one
by one pieces of my body to each vulture.

A voice zooms. What do
you do? You want to drink blood, or venom,
or hemlock given to Socrates?

I feel the role of a human being is well explained here and violent thoughts about a person too are informed precisely, Satish jee. Well written.

Padma, Hyderabad, Nov 29, 2021
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