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

The Man



The Man

A man did come to see me,
You had better believe
Because I rarely remember
The last time I lied.

“Where do you live?” I had asked,
Holding the burning cigarette he passed.
“I don’t live in a house,” he said,
“But in a room with no ceiling, no walls.”

“Where is that?” I questioned,
For a place must have a name
To make- believe its existence.

My question turned him off.
He lit another smoke.
Didn’t pass me.
Went off without a word.

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