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Friday 15 December 2023

Perfume

(for Ovais Ahmad)


He took his time to speak,

which he often does,

unknotting the moments,

to qualify it appropriately

so that

I understand exactly 

what he intended to convey.


petrichor - you know?

something closer to the feeling,

he paused.


The details then -

he bought that

particular perfume,

although expensive,

because its aroma reminded him

of something he couldn't enter

on his own.


Hence, throughout the day,

happily, 

even at night -

he carried his own grave with him

like some personalized pillow,

like crucial documents.


Throughout,

his body was his own grave.

He smelled Human -

spirited and decaying

hic et nunc.

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