-Raga-

                    Translated from "Learning Experience" / Chloe Martinez / "Ten Thousand Selves"                                       "The Word Works", 2021                               

It’s the mad push from the slow rolling train which caused you

to hit the concrete platform which broke your jaw.

The densely occupied car is probably replaced by now,

all new with better doors and appropriate warning signage.

At the least, one raga should be penned in honor of the occasion, but 

during the crack of your bones did you come to see your short life in review,

or fantasize the beauty of your unborn daughters? With what, did you throw

your dislodged tooth to the dirt of the tracks, pure rage?

And cursing the mad hand of God, didn't you simply hate India?