The Melt Down Xi Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Kitchen cabinet
Kitchen sink politics
Boiling dyes
Chiffon,
White shrouds.

Dinosaurs in water
Instead of fish,
Lined lances
A grey evening
A red morning.

Sermons trance
State, society, religion
Big lies.

Cold columns
Cavalcade of Judges
Adamant.

‘Tired of being sorry'
Enrique Iglesias -
Solo guitars
Blasting away
Crushing bones.

Portrait of a girl
Purple goat-beards,
Blind lines.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
August 28,2014.