My Roach
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2020
Summary
Oh roach, my roach, my cockroach
Preening, lithe limbs in my dark mind's pantry
Show me the way, show me the how of
immortality, way past
haunted broccoli-forests growing on beds of rice
What gun, which holster, what clue
what thud
stirs us awake
What thoughts bud, what howls
What consistencies of mud,
what murk of feeling
what dread
grips, what mourning,
whose blood sends us out dancing, reeling?
Nature has struck,
Its godly belch, the sacrifice was perfect
Her smile clear, creation vindicates
her big-bang, her cruelty, her tears
wasted on us
Oh roach, my roach, my cockroach
wily survivor,
I can't restrain my urge to set you
Alight
in these mind-thickets, on this night
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- From Around the World in Eighty DaysThe India Section, pp. 68Publisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2014