08/11/08

chandala age

shambhuka, smile on his lips,

is killing rama.

ekalavya with an axe

is chopping down drona's thumb

bali with his little feet

is stamping vamana down to patala


manu, piercing needles in his eyes

cutting his tongue

pouring lead in his ears

is rolling in the graveyard


standing on the butcher's knife of time

the chandala roars

setting four hounds

on adi sankara


oh..!

this current age

is an extremely chandala age


my translation of sivasagar's naDustunna caritra (1994).
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks very much for the poem. but please, verse should have single line spacing between lines of the same stanza, it's really annoying to read otherwise.

7:39 am
kuffir said...

anon,

thanks. for the advice too- but i'd point you to the title of this post (and this blog). :)

10:27 am
Anonymous said...

wow. forgive me for being so bold as to make that request, clearly i am too stupid to understand the bold, militant, ideological implications of hitting return twice, how inadqueate of me to think both the title of the post and the title of the blog were more morally serious than typographical tics. clearly, i am unworthy of even reading this blog. jesus h. christ.

1:38 pm
kuffir said...

anon,

'verse should have single line spacing between lines of the same stanza'

well, the 'should have' got me.

'clearly i am too stupid to understand the bold, militant, ideological implications of hitting return twice'

my apologies. i am more nearsighted than i tell myself, and i've found double spacing advantageous, most times.

2:05 pm
Anonymous said...

Add to this
Muhhamad fucking a prepubcent girl.
Yahweh striking down a city for sodomy.

4:54 pm

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