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| Playground by ASHOK GUPTA |
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ASHOK GUPTA PlaygroundWe each bring to the workplace a cranium bowl of ego some full some less and some almost empty At the end of the day we decide the winner by its fullness and the losers by its emptiness and hurt Copyright 2006, ASHOK GUPTA, all rights retained |
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| Getting Your E-Mail by LYN LIFSHIN |
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LYN LIFSHIN Getting Your E-Mailimagine a letter coming years after the writer who sent it is dead, or weeks after weeks that never were what they could have been. Nothing seemed not to hurt from him, that ache you feel at 12 and are supposed to know is absurd later Aprils. Well, I was a mess with enough pills to do something awful. Instead I checked E mail on the hour, turned the black to words, an antidote for his poison that almost ruined Paris, Madrid. I might as well have been caught in the trap of his words, enchanting then, tempting, now though I know he is a spider who can spin silk, gorgeous webs, glistening jewel- like, then devoured Copyright 2006, LYN LIFSHIN, all rights retained |
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| Ramla by ASHOK GUPTA |
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ASHOK GUPTA RamlaASHOK GUPTA Ramla He would come daily to sweep, wash clothes and dishes in a shirt torn at the back I gave him a shirt that I didn't wear any more and another and another but he would still come daily in the shirt torn at the back Why? I would ask Each time he answered I sent it home to my brother in Dungarpur and would still come daily in the shirt torn at the back Copyright 2006, ASHOK GUPTA, all rights retained |
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