Why I'm Rubbing Out Poem by Jahir Hasan

Why I'm
Rubbing out all the signboards of houses and shops
In this town!

Is it the turning of Neelkhet
Or I couldn't recognize Nawabpur!

Of whom order
I keep erasing
Such kinds of houses
Beside the sordid alleys
Why the hell the doors of these houses all keep closed!

Where have they gone for all
Infront all of these houses
I'm rubbing out theengravedgreets
And deceased's name whoever they were
With identityon a tomb
Sitting beside!
Someone is marking me though
Nevertheless, I am rubbing out
The moon obliging someone
Was turning upside down repeatedly
Though it was becoming the same
And I am rubbing out
All the holding number
Of those houses!


Translated by Hosen Motahar