Of Melancholy Whores Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Suffice the name and impart degrade
Of mice and men, on dead meat savor,
Paradise pimpius, limbless addicts
Between them and god, is the shrine.
Octogenarian ‘sheikh' opens Champagne
Of chocolate drops on white sheet.
Lovers are husbands, dreams are dear,
Skinny, diseased, and long inheritance,
If not caught in war, from a street stolen,
If misery, isolation and marginalization
The catch-words for human rights.
The last meal, is flesh on another bone,
The child is learning tomorrow's bloom.
From the window of palace and mosque,
Could one read, eyes masked in death.

-On reading Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown simultaneously.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
March 27,2014.

'Goya's Whores' based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book "Memories of My Melancholy Whores' by Roberto Garcia Marquez @ Roberto Garcia Marquez Gallery