WHY LOVERS NEVER SMOKE INSIDE CLOSED ROOMS!

The smoke screen is a fiery crystal ball,

many forms take shape, many shapes take form;

An aqueous Chinar drips fire-leaves -

A warhorse, smoke etched, mutates into a mule -

The grey spines of long lost countries

appear and disappear like serpentine ouroboros.

All this can vanish with a sooty sigh,

but then, the gyres emerge

like long tresses and almighty arms

smothering, suffocating, stifling.

A room under the smoky talons

is a dungeon spiralling forever.

IDENTITY POLITICS

So much labour
So much toil
So much sifting
And selecting
This I
He, she
They -
So many lines
And barbed wires
Motherland
This country
And that -
So many races and colors -
So many orientations
Hetero, Homo
And Gay -
All are but
One among many categories
On a porn website
To be selected
Used and abused
By a Politician
Or Priest