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Amita’s poem deals with war, death, disaster, and ennui – an exclusive for Different Truths.
As I wonder what to cook for dinner, I glance through news headlines, I read that a star has gobbled up a planet So cosmic, so distant, so irrelevant. Just as the USA, Ukraine, Sudan, or Turkey Or elsewhere War, tsunami, earthquake, school shooting Gobbles up, innocents. Humanity gobbled up. Humane hearts gobbled up. It was gobbled up by insane hate or Nature’s wrath. Global village, global citizens, global warming, But Global peace? So commonly used, yet distant, yet so relevant. How global can a Self be? How about cooking dinner, Dollops of ghee on garam garam, naram Khichdi? Live in the moment. Anyway, next it could be that this Planet’s asteroid struck, Or Star gobbled.
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