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inchme and pinchme  August 2008

By: allan sealy

part of a narrative poem that starts in fatehpur sikri and ends on the pakistan border

inchme and pinchme
went for a walk
so our childhood riddle went
 
inchme fell over
now who was left
ouch  was the answer  friend
 
so what else is new
youre asking me
on our subcontinent
 
tears and blood
blood and tears
the leopards spots again
 
whats new
is simply nuclear
whats old a little trust
 
or one second we re you
and me – pinch me –
next  radioactive dust

Irwin Allan Sealy lives in the foothills of the Himalaya. His most recent novel is red: an alphabet.

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