Modern Fiction Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Its CDiolic,
Pulpish, -splashy cover
Thinner than a Mc Donald's,
Fishi-er, slip
Ery…erry, eiry.
Reader's digest, of modern time
You look for quotable quotes,
And don't find, the best medicine.

A rock singer's album
Note the Turkish military beat
That you want to smash the dvd
Out. (Alisher Navai competed Persian)
Or any ‘album', after the second song.

It's not worth
Two hour's reading.
On the back-cover nominated thrice,
For some ‘Hampton prize',
Bribed reviews.

And published by Penguin India
(we don't have any publisher of note
In our country) -another proof
Of poor intellect, -markets-man acue-
Men.

Light-weight, light-hearted.
Terror sells, may be anything
Inter-faith. Women clad in ‘burqa',
Militant combing beard.

High-brow
Stuck in low-brow,
Discovering herself -the protagonist.
Rumi and Buddha rule the roost
Or some tricks of ‘Change'.

Poetry
Back-burner
Never sells, -is sickly grave.
Nauseating,
And the masters are a drag.
Burden to the senses,
Imposing.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
March 17,2014.

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