photographers
from new york
come shoot
her and go
a few
indian rupees
to change
her luck
her destiny
which is the same
today or tomorrow
with her blind eyes
her pain her sorrow
must she know
molten tears
as they flow
she rises fall
blow after blow
the heat the dust
the humidity
the rains
as her
lifes gutters
overflow

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A show that makes me puke
a show for the sake of humanity
vociferously voyeuristic
they must certainly nuke

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like a dog
leashed
to a karmic chain
broken battered
the living doll of pain
eyes closed
she came
under
a speeding life's train
maggot infested fate
a termite eaten brain
from above and below
beatings of a cane
on her soul her
leper body they rain

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