Adil Jussawalla is a poet of Bombay
Writing of the Bombayan inner scpaes
Depicting and describing
As per the models of the Eliotesque hollow men
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There comes a time in everybody's life
When one keeps floating and flowing
In a dreamy
And dramatic way,
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Modern hollow man's talks,
Eliot,
I am here listening to,
Which keep boring.
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Indian English poetry is a study
In minor voices and slender anthologies,
Self-published poets and poetesses,
Even the major ones too have evolved in time.
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I want you, I want you,
A girl just like you,
A girl
Just like you,
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Communists seem to be public-friendly,
But turn autocratic and dictatorial,
As they repress and suppress
The people's movements,
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Jadavpur Campus and the adda of love and romance,
Loving and romancing
And doing Naxalism
Under the garb of of a reading fellow,
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Romantic heroine,
In the absence of her,
How to be a romantic?
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Sir Vidya,
V.S.Naipaul in the dark sunglasses,
The mimic man
Mimicking others,
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The French-cut beard of Sir Vidya
In the dark sunglasses,
I love it,
The beard of the Caribbean writer,
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