বিশ্ব সাহিত্য

Again And Again And Again

January 3, 2025

Joy Banik

Original Author Anne Sexton

262
View

You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.


I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
It is old. It is also a pauper.


I have tried to keep it on a diet.
I give it no unction.
There is a good look that I wear
like a blood clot. I have
sewn it over my left breast.


I have made a vocation of it.
Lust has taken plant in it
and I have placed you and your
child at its milk tip.


Oh the blackness is murderous
and the milk tip is brimming
and each machine is working
and I will kiss you when
I cut up one dozen new men
and you will die somewhat,
again and again.

Comments

    Please login to post comment. Login