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You have died  Without your soul Ever- leaving your body .                           -me too 

Life Earned

I stood on the queue  in the bank impatiently but almost immediate had to take several steps back .  Body odour. Something so despised but probably the biggest indicator of socio-economic status. The man in front of me was radiating a head smashing odour. There were two others in front of him, they probably stank too...who knows? This was overwhelming. But immediately I regretted moving away , because a closer look at them and I saw life . Their skin dark and burnt by this ungodly sun, yellow-y eyes , bald. All three of them as if they had planned it . Their clothes shabby . And it dawned on me . This is the look of honest men , who had actually  earned their living . Literally depositing their daily sweat as investment for tomorrow's bread . Not like me, with my crisp notes in a neat white envelope in my fancy bag. Money I hadn't sweat for . Probably more than they earned in a month . That's my weekly stipend . There , for the first time I smelt my dis...

Aphorisms: critique of a poet.

Short , like our trust I can't even find comfort In the wriggly mind of a poet.  A lost lifeline Reducing the seductive embrace of words To a few miserly tidings, Aphorisms.  Promisingly put in the middle of a blank page Disappointing like phantom lover Haste. Noisy. Missing. Giving me no solace or thought Meaningless , like the love we hoped  Only a poet could cure.