It hardly matters
What is the value of poetry as such
where the real thing is to hide the real facts
Beauty salons, aesthetics
Dug up symbols, irony, metaphors
Whether you daydream
or keep your eyes closed
What does it matter
Bhumaiya and Kista
were hanged
Your children are shot dead
What does it matter
Somalia Africa
Cheap life.
Cheap oil- expensive statement
Costly lecture-remarks fly
The wind flies away
the flowered lid of the coffin.
It stinks.
It hardly matters.
(Translated by Ritwik Chakravarty)
