Salman Rushdie

"A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and to stop it from going to sleep."

Salman Rushdie

Please Mr. Centipede



Please Mr. Centipede
Lend me your legs
Mr. Centipede.
What need for you
Of those hundreds you have?
I just own two
And roads I must walk
Are longer, wider than life.
I will worship you higher than God,
Who just watches from distance,
Never helps.
Lend me your legs.
I so desperately need them,
More that the freeing wings of Miss Butterfly,
The healing fragrance of Miss Blackrose.
I will never be understood
The way I want.
And it’s more that okay now.
You just lend me your legs.
I will walk without rest.

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