There are some who give off an evil glow,
no matter what colour clothes they wear.
In a state just a bus ride from here,
a leader shouts promises of revenge;
what he says quietly, we can only guess.
I have not been home to see my children
in two weeks, says the man selling peanuts
on the dusty road that runs along the drain,
but I hear things are bad—
they come in the night and take away
our young men, and they gun
us down in the streets.
Before the darkness,
you used to laugh
when your Communist
friends warned you,
Never forget the Golden Rule:
he who has the gold makes the rules!
In UP, newspapers report
that police raided a madrassa
and arrested 1oo young students
and a 66 year old cleric
who they stripped naked
in the cold and tortured all night.
After their release,
some of the students said
they’d been beaten and forced
to chant Jai Shree Ram,
while others came out crying,
bleeding from their rectums.
No one expects an investigation.
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