Murder | Subodh Sarkar

The boy used to say
‘You will be killed the moment you love someone else.’
The girl used to say
‘ I will kill you if you flirt with any other.’

The girl is in Canada now, and
The boy is in Nepal, Rangoon
Can you tell me why they haven’t
Killed each other yet?

Subodh Sarkar is a Bengali poet, writer and editor, and a reader in English literature at City College, Kolkata. He has written over 20 books of poems, two of translations and one travelogue on America. His poems have been translated into English, French and several Indian languages and published in several journals and anthologies.

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