I CAN’T SLEEP

I CAN’T SLEEP



It is for their love
of God they play loud music
or chant His name on
loudspeakers but it kills my
peace the whole night I can’t sleep



--R.K.SINGH

FRESH CATCH

FRESH CATCH

the sea smells
from far off leaps to the sky
I drive through
the maze of returning folks
with fresh catch on their head

--R.K.SINGH

HARDSHIPS OF THE SKY

HARDSHIPS OF THE SKY

I dont want to mount
the hardships of the sky
if the earth’s labor pain
is false or the action
stillborn with or without
scalpel the doctor
humiliates process

--R.K.Singh

RUPTUROUS

a happier image
with salubrious top
turns rupturous
as she tamps her love
with watery lipstick

--R.K.Singh

HARLOT

Sitting next door
with scheming mind
and crafty heart
loud and rebellious
a professional loser
perfumes the room
with flattering lips
and strays a preacher
into revolution
from between the thighs

--R.K.Singh

CLUELESS

Each night a challenge:

suffocative restlessness

sleepless spirits’ noise

sexual starvation

anal menstruation

dingy subconscious

conspire behind closed eyes

absent healing and

wishful miracles

a clueless sun rises

bugging time and life

–R.K.Singh

DEGENERATION

When gods are out to teach me a lesson
where to go to pray or find relief?

my prophet friend predicts each day good
and the future fulfilling, the palmists find
the sun, saturn, venus, and rahu hostile

they seek money for rituals, stones, or mantras
while God gives us the best in life gratis

I can't change man or nature, nor the karmas
now or tomorrow they all delude
in the maze of expediency and curse
stars, fate, destiny, or life before and after
degenerating the mind, body, thought, and divine

--R.K.Singh