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Poetry: prisoner of landi kotal
February 20, 2007
temporal
temporal
disheveled children shouting joyfully running, playing with tiny pebbles in their puny palms aiming for the bars
townspeople, passers by
through rusted bars glance
at cobwebbed body-cells
at dreams and desires
incarcerated and
forgotten under some
moth-eaten, lost verdict
kindly souls pass food
or furtive smiles
desultory looks
unaware they are
in life's prison too
landi kotal is a small frontier town, near torkham, at the border of pakistan and afghanistan. at one time it had a single room prison in the town square above a store-front.
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tbs
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February 20, 2007
06:12 PM
"at one time it had a single room prison in the town square above a store-front"
and today?
temporal
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February 21, 2007
09:32 AM
tbs:
things have changed somewhat since my last visit:)
the occupying army has enslaved and incarcerated whole tribes in the region under the guise of 'war on terror' by musni mubarraf;)
BJ Kumar
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February 21, 2007
09:31 PM
[unaware they are
in life's prison too]
Thanks a LOT, t-bhai!! But I am not in any hurry to get out.
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