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Five-days' untouchable
Soibam Haripriya *
Is this blood of life
Merely to mark me impure
For Genesis says
I am not a creator, but created
Created from a man
For five days
Quarantined from the rest
By this unholy fluid
Wrapped with untouchable phanek
Phanek after Phanek
Carrying my untouchable-ness
Accused piece of cloth
Contaminated for a lifetime
Neither nocturnal tryst nor daytime assault
Defile the hands that tore it away
Yet lying apart from me
In the pale weatherbeaten bamboo polankhok
He watched the muga fabric
Soak up the rain
Droplets after droplets
* Poem written by Soibam Haripriya . This poem was webcasted on April 1, 2009.
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