Anorexia Hits India

Anorexia begins to consume India

I sit here with the newspaper Drinking a cup of Masala tea Matching our skin, here in London Where the clocks run back (And not only a matter of hours I can tell you now)

They changed your name

Did this protect your identity?

Did you look up to Miss World, Sushmita Sen?

I could have sworn there was more in the sky.

Did you fall for the serious humour of advertisements

For the style magazines replacing Bibles?

Shame on thou!

Down, I read further: ‘More English speakers

than in England’ -a mother tongue is silenced

By the sunset west.

Yet I doubt you’ll get the accent right, I haven’t:

Since everything I say is misintrepreted

They can’t pronounce your fathers name

So they give him an innaccurate nickname

For example ‘Righteous’ and ‘traditional’

And so I Zubyre Parvez, strive to spell out my name

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