once i
took to my roots
they claimed parsimony
a misspelt patrimony
a submission to the ordering of the other –
“An abhorrent sentimentality is
to ardor as angst is to the coffin’s
thievery” – attributed to the late
(ir)reverend bhakti seth
mir fakhr-e-doodhsiyahi, the
last soothnaysayer of Gujrat.