Boys Will Be Boys
A Daughter's Elegy
136 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
©
2003
Cloth $22.00
ISBN: 9780226304014
Published October 2003
Boys will be boys Love demands patience Ask of Kohakan's heart the reality of existence! There is a wilderness within the wilderness My golden town, Kasur! Give birth to your own world, if you are among the living! Why ask about Mir's religion and beliefs? He has long since drawn a line on his forehead, sat in a temple, and renounced Islam There are many brothers here, but few friends You are with me, as it were, when no other can be there The pious keep going to report to the authorities: That Akbar actually names God, in this very age! Don't trouble me, you perfumed wind, take to your road! You have frivolity on your mind while I sit here in despair We are the lover, they the impatiently disdaining: Dear God! What kind of business is this, anyway? Long live, you purest land! The point of the tongue
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