In a dream I had about half

a year ago
I was licking myself
all over like a cat. There were
crocodiles sunning themselves
on the banks of a river. It was clear

that they were all poets
out hunting for images
to drag them into the deep
of language. I told them all to
bugger off. I told them to stop
writing poems

and to start growing flowers
and while I had their ear
I quickly slipped in that
we are all equal
in our sleep and that all
the joy in the world
pours forth from forests
in the cool of the night.

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Salil Chaturvedi
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