An evocative body poem, as Meher describes it, exclusively for Different Truths.
I live at the mercy of a liver that dictates what I can eat what I can’t drink even determines the colour of my skin. Have a field day, fiend! Force me to see with a jaundiced eye. The trouble is, I need your cooperation to survive. But by obeying I can shrink you back to size.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Meher Pestonji is a veteran journalist writing on street kids, housing rights, and communalism while covering theatre, art and interviewing creative people. She has written two novels, Pervez and Sadak Chhaap, three plays, ‘Piano for Sale’, ‘Feeding Crows’ ‘Turning Point’ and short stories. Her first collection of poems will be out shortly.
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