When celebs buy the farm,
a day apart, they rob each
other of eulogies. Plaudits
and panegyrics are split up.
To not honor a handfast
is of greater immorality
or complying with it
in grief and gruffness?
Query of this kind
is best postmarked
to the participator
or the injured party.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry books. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He edited Dreich Planet # India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He is highly commended in the erbacce prize, UK, May 2025. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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