Bijay Kant Dubey Poems

On finding none around me to speak in English, I trying my best to speak in English
With my dog?
O, how are you!
And lo, the dog too is smelling me, behaving strangely, standing on half the body
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A loafer as a grandfather saying to that he had very, very intelligent
When as a boy,
But the secret only the Almighty knows it and his olden friends,
How bogus had he been! A third-classer and a last-bencher too.
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Who am I, what my name, where my house, who my own, where to go,
What my identity, entity,
The clown and the fool said to me,
How silly is it to ask about these!
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This business of the Ph.D. degree, what to say about it,
People doing Ph.Ds.,
Doing or getting done,
Purchasing or selling
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I
Generally, the third-classers get well-placed and established
Rather than the real and original ones,
The deserving ones
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The university professor, lecturer and reader now the points
Of my deliberation, debate and discussion,
My kind perusal
And I perusing the papers
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Abstract: Little magazines and their little-little editors Little men’s little magazines Poetasters, rhymers, commoners and non-poets as poets and poetesses Poets and poetesses as bluff-masters and mistresses Self-praise is no praise, as goes the adage Poetry not in mutual admiration The small editor a poet and the fellow reviewers and subscribers admiring, even university readers and the meritless poetry the topic discussion and the teacher applying in the reader-responses theory

The bluff-masters of Indian English poetry talk I, think I about,
Those who had not to be poets and poetesses are,
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As a poet, what have I got, what have I really
As mine is a painted grief, a painted life
And I have been viewing all that
Through my poetical eyes,
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Brindaban, where that Brindaban, which search you,
Search I, the eternal abode of Krishna,
As he swings not under the kadamba tree with Radha as his consort,
But in sending you, feel the pains of being
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My tribute, homage to the unknown scholar
Who lived as an unknown man, as an unknown scholar
And passed away unknown,
My tribute and my homage to him,
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