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they’re not for me these girls with fashionable breasts already under strain of school going children not mine those toes with painted nails hopefully slipping from heeled sandals onto asphalt road where pebbles meander under police stare monitored by media glare engineering is what meditation whispers into shirt shoulders that the tailor has narrowed assuming a certain individuality a refreshing intellectual unnerving with the unfolding of a ladybird’s most colorful wing in an optimistic winter sun |
| Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a career as an International Trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the ‘80s and ‘90s. He has one book of poems, Tenatively (ISBN: 0-595-33935-2) and has been extensively published in print and on-line magazines and in Chapbook form in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. email: ashokniyogi@yahoo.com |
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