Makarand

[thechasingiamb.livejournal.com]

Take my shirt off
and go in there to do the puja?
No thanks.

Not me.
But you go right ahead
if that is what you want to do.

Give me the matchbox
before you go,
will you?

I will be out in the courtyard
where no one will mind it
if I smoke.

Arun Kolatkar

Comments

[applegnat.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you. I really hope we'll see more Kolatkar here now. Which collection is this from, do you know?

[aimlesswanderer.livejournal.com]

Is this a part of a collection of poetry by him? If not, do you happen to know/remember where this was published?

Thanks,
./w

[thechasingiamb.livejournal.com]

applegnat and aimless wanderer,

This is from a collection called Jejuri. It won the Commonwealth prize in 77. You will find excerpts in many anthologies.

I will try and post some from his last collection the Kalaghoda poems.