your name’s absurd too terribly asinine dactyls
crashing in on each other like dyspeptic waves
engaged in slapsticky bitchfighting
over matters of earth-shattering import
like what constitutes a fair price for
unlovingly crafted prada knockoffs
in sunny dooby’s increasingly dubious
and depressingly overcrowded backstreets
i forgive you your insistence
on taking a mulligan and claiming as justification
the rough and tumble of life in cities where
hardship allowances are under threat
and forgive myself my lusting after
someone as wholesomely vacuous as you
for lust (he said) is brief and briefer still
my dextrous exposition of it all
if i changed my name to afzal jah
or mehmet abdul quddus
would you still be willing to introduce
me to your superficially tractive friends?
(minos – march 2008)
originally posted up at pak tea house on 26.03.08
