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Loss of an absence
absence of a loss...
malls, food sites
hawk
fresh stocks
of Deepavali ferral...
chakli,
chewda,
sankarpali,
laddoo,
karanji,
sev,
Sivakasi crackers;
for pelf, profit;
dreams out of stock;
no buyers, say they;
hence, no sellers;
poets shifty,
alter scales,
staring at night skies;
crowds at airport
with foreign
passports,
Deepavali feral,
in transit
to foreign certainties;
dumping Ajis and Ajobas,
Kabir and Tuka,
Meera and Janabhai.
in retirement homes ...
Loss of an absence
absence of a loss....