Need-based cliques possess their ethics,
the conventions of consummation. Is
shilly-shallying a mind or heart thing?
Exceptional comicality turns on the waterworks.
Polity honeycombed with funny money begets
meanness and misery. Fill finds its fulfillment.
Sequences of sustenance etch their imprint on
the marquee of our internal drive-in. Sometimes,
gelt arrives, but Grace doesn’t.
Subduction is my way of not confronting reality
as if sight is the only indicator that one can’t
see without seeing. Completion finds completion.
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Sanjeev Sethi
Picture Nick Victor
Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry, his latest being Legato without a Lisp (CLASSIX, an imprint of Hawakal, New Delhi, September 2024). His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and have appeared in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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