Friend And Foe Xxviii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Friend And Foe Xxviii



He came with a loan
On a markup only the mealy mouthed Chinese
Business could understand. A Shanghai saga.

The other, the long foe
Drowned the plains with the sagacious Rama,
Of Bhagawad Gita, along with sacred animals
By letting the rivers overflow.

He is the ring in the neck
Of the nation,
Defunct Parliament
And every breathing living
Living on this part of earth.
He is a liability
Hulago refused to take care of him.

Brother the younger,
Is an estate agent, a developer
For whom progress is buying a laptop
Of Vaio company to the errant son:
And marrying every leftover widow,
A ‘Desi' version of an aging playboy
Who smells of curry and curcumin.

They eat roasted hoofs of cows in their breakfast,
And tend to wear waist-coats, count their money
By moistening their fingers with their tongues.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
September 9,2014.

Saturday, September 13, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
-O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 adventure comedy film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and others. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer's epic poem, Odyssey. The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to film a fictional book about the Great Depression called O Brother, Where Art Thou? This has to do something with political culture in the region and internal politics. It has many eventual details, but the emphasis is that how corrupt international business, regional interests and inept politicians deprive the common folks of their rights. The brothers refer to the two brothers ruling our country, one is the Prime Minister and the other is the Chief Minister of the Punjab province, the biggest in population and resources.
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