Monday, September 10, 2018

Excerpt from 'Cruelty' by Namdeo Dhasal, the Dalit Poet




I am a venereal sore in the private part of language.


The living spirit looking out


of hundreds of thousands of sad, pitiful eyes


Has shaken me. I am broken by the revolt exploding inside me.


There's no moonlight anywhere;


There's no water anywhere.


A rabid fox is tearing off my flesh with its teeth;


And a terrible venom-like cruelty


Spreads out from my monkey-bone


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