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Bob Marley

a poem by Sankhajit Bhattacharjee

I
Bob Marley was reading
‘The Proletariat Manifesto’.

A lyricist asked,
‘What is the permanent solution’?
A composer asked,
‘What is the permanent solution’?
A singer asked,
‘What is the permanent solution’?

He asked himself…
His heart answered,
“Best Over Bad… My Artful Revolution Lured Evolutionary Yearn”!
He wrote:
‘Necessity to nourishment.
Deprivation to development.
Suppression to sovereignty’.

II
Rita asked Bob,
‘You write all day long.
Don’t you have any time for me’!

‘The philosophers interpret the change.
Romanticism is never bound to family only’.

‘I feel detached’.

‘Let me write songs.
You compose.
Our children will sing’.