A Brand New Eden…

a poem by Tanushree Nair

One goes in to buy a second mink…
a garment with an European look…
and a delicate French wrapping!
return the bundle
before talking of refinement!
for who can complain if you are not included
in the profit return…
none called me to provide guns…
to make a new deal spread…
to record the felling of a tree…
to wash some underwear in the sea…
for I am a creature in the nude
that took a bitter drug…
determined to lend support…
wading through a sea of humanity
bathing in their interchangeability
between the tapered points of diversion
on the beach…
I undertook not to start
a piece of amusement
with something dubious gained
by hideous mind manipulation…
but to appear in court
ever so briefly…
to eat and drink with,
kiss and transform,
Sodom and Gomorrah…
to head off the beasts
of another sort…
to create a brand new Eden…