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Sudesh Mishra

The Black Pagoda: Konarak

The Black Pagoda: Konarak

The Black Pagoda: Konarak

The Statesman on Nicolae Ceausescu.
Another brute, another revolution.
Always we favour the grenade solution.
A tour of the Sun Temple won’t stop a coup
In some piddling Calypso Republic.
All our monuments are monstrosities.
The blood of serfs sustains our royal trees.
So what if each plinth is in precise cubic
Feet? I have learnt to measure human art
Through the eyes of slaves in a carrion cart.
Sudesh Mishra

Sudesh Mishra

(Fiji, 1962)

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The Black Pagoda: Konarak

The Statesman on Nicolae Ceausescu.
Another brute, another revolution.
Always we favour the grenade solution.
A tour of the Sun Temple won’t stop a coup
In some piddling Calypso Republic.
All our monuments are monstrosities.
The blood of serfs sustains our royal trees.
So what if each plinth is in precise cubic
Feet? I have learnt to measure human art
Through the eyes of slaves in a carrion cart.

The Black Pagoda: Konarak

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