Human rights (Poem)

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The legal — black inked
yellowish inert pages of the constitution
sitting in a lotus posture
inside
national museums
could not catch
sight of —

kaki lathis on the roads
bullets jaywalking
on the sinful skins of people.

Citizens mutilating
flesh on earth
in the name of the holy-spirit
on some — nebula world.

Tongues that chant mantras
but
cancels the dignity
of the genders.

Paper bureaucrats
with loaned power
from people
never paying back the interest.

State
with
a veil of silence
a baton of arrogance
and
a flag of violence.

— Drunken citizen.


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