ANJANA BASU

Poetry RE: Place

You grow up in a place and you accept it for what it is. The things that seem eyesores
to you because you are an outsider are everyday things to people here. 

Poetry and literature does what it normally does for people because, in the middle of
everything, life goes on. I write poems about what matters to me, which may or may
not be a social issue. If I lived in the villages and suffered or on the streets and starved
perhaps I might not have had the luxury of writing poetry. The ancient and modern 
society we live in is more of an issue because that affects our lives.
 
America also has a dark underbelly of drugs, discrimination and violence. Not to mention
poverty. The first public corpse I remember seeing was in the Bronx - someone who had
died of a drug overdose. 

Some people write about it, some people don't. The extreme sufferers never write.
At least I haven't heard of any.

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