Jaipur, India - The Boiling Moon & Sapphire Writes (Poems)

The Boiling Moon
(April, 1998)

It was a still night, in Jaipur. No clocks ticking,

it is close to two in the morning. The sound of crickets,

dogs guarding, sleepers snoring, sleeping on cots

by the streets outside the hotel: half naked

light blankets over their lower bodies and heads;

dogs nearby, itching, lightly barking, no one wakes,

a hundred people under the boiling moon,

they have no sense of time, just bull snorts,

and dogs barking, of course. I'm the only one

babbling to myself in this empty night, watching

tranquil sleepers-breath in and breath out.

-I walk by them, three dogs corner me,

they look hungry, stained somehow,

with bitter mouths, saliva dribbling, their eyes

starving to attack, yet they hold back.

I'm sweating, my teeth grinding, and my belly's tight;

the old Hindu by the hotel, the guard, he hears

the excitement in the dark, he's coming, running

I have rocks in my hands, and so does he.

Crash! Crash! I throw, and he throws, its

sufficient to scare the dogs off. ((I have pain in my

kidney.) We, we finish up, at a Hindu shrine,

I'm thanking God, for his immortality

(had it not been, that he was on hand,

I'm not sure what then.)(I'm thankful for

The old Hindu Guard...! That he was alarmed.))

I'm not sure what the old Hindu man was saying,

but was doing what was doing, bowing, praying

and praising...!

#2287 ((1:59 AM)(2-27-2008)) Mark Twain once said in so many words: India was a most beautiful place, it is like a circus. I agree it is most beautiful, during the day, try the late hours of night 2:30 AM (or is it the wee hours of the morning), in any case, it is a different world then. In Agra, in the late night, cows and folks sleep on the streets, as they do in Jaipur, as in Delhi, women and children eat out of garbage piles by the hotels. Thus, things are not so beautiful, unless you hide inside the hotel, or go with the flow, on the tourist bus.

Sapphire
writes:

"...What's happening to the world?

Why are people being so

mean and ungrateful?"

Perhaps Sapphire, they

have a hole in their hearts

where God is suppose to be.

Or possibly the world was

always like this, and we were

too blind to see (that I don't

want to believe). Whatever,

when we were young, or at

least me, the world you

talk about, seemed more

pleasant, less surreal;

now all I can say,

Sapphire is, welcome,

to the reptile

family).

#2305 3-3-2008 Sapphire, was is a person whom asked
me a question by writing a comment to me in July, 2007,
I believe the date is correct, and this is my response.

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