Tears of Fish

There
will be no tears of fish or even humans
this time when tides of street tidings reach us
that all poll promises you made have died again
on your fat tongue and were buried yet again
in the spacious rooms of your soft rotund belly
jelly dancing inside your suave suits from Dubai
like the yolk of life in the shell of Allah Himself…

Hon. Politician-cum-Poet
Do you read the books in the August House library?
Books such like the various Holy Books among us:
The Bible, The Quran, Ka, Vedas or Kitáb-i-Aqdas?
Hear with ears of conscience, just as example
what the 26th Chapter of the Quran says of your ilk:

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Shall I inform you (of him) upon whom the Shaitans descend
They descend upon every lying, sinful one,
They incline their ears, and most of them are liars.
And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them.
Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley?
And that they say that which they do not do,

So
Honourable Politician-cum-Poet,
There
will be no tears of fish or even humans
when we boycott this umpteenth requiem
to your electoral promises and chase away
under a hail of stone curses and placards
your minions with their verses of invitation
to the grand banquet you are throwing again
to soothe soul sorrows in this vote-rich slum
by acting Obama as you abuse oral artistry
while we feed on plates upon plates of zeros
and drink chalices upon chalices of our sweat!

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