Saturday, 19 July 2025

Full Text of The Ambiguous Fate of Gieve Patel, He Being Neither Muslim nor Hindu in India by Gieve Patel

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

by Gieve Patel


   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.


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