Photo: Melanie Wasser
all you need to know today
is that she
was smoking at a café
wearing a Yellow Sari,
all you need to know about it,
is that her purple lip-stick
Wasn’t – smudged,
and her Red eyes
saw flakes of your skin
falling
on the marble tiles
all you need to know
is that the smoke
which was dragged out of her mouth,
wanted to stay
in the cage of her chest
and the cigarette she held between
the obscene and the covenant,
was like the trident
she gripped her paws around
the night before
the burn marks became more evident
than the ring-mark on her finger
all you need to know is
that she inherited the Sari
from her mother
but painted it Yellow herself
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