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I don't know politics but I know the names	A
Of those in power and can repeat them like	B
Days of week or names of months beginning with Nehru	C
I amIndian very brown born inMalabar	C
I speak three languages write in	D
Two dream in one	E
Don't write in English they said English is	F
Not your mother tongue Why not leave	G
Me alone critics friends visiting cousins	H
Every one of you Why not let me speak in	D
Any language I like The language I speak	I
Becomes mine its distortions its queernesses	H
All mine mine alone	J
It is half English halfIndian funny perhaps but it is honest	K
It is as human as I am human don't	L
You see It voices my joys my longings my	M
Hopes and it is useful to me as cawing	I
Is to crows or roaring to the lions it	N
Is human speech the speech of the mind that is	H
Here and not there a mind that sees and hears and	O
Is aware Not the deaf blind speech	P
Of trees in storm or of monsoon clouds or of rain or the	Q
Incoherent mutterings of the blazing	I
Funeral pyre I was child and later they	R
Told me I grew for I became tall my limbs	H
Swelled and one or two places sprouted hair	C
WhenI asked for love not knowing what else to ask	I
For he drew a youth of sixteen into the	Q
Bedroom and closed the door He did not beat me	S
But my sad woman body felt so beaten	E
The weight of my breasts and womb crushed me	S
I shrank Pitifully	S
Then I wore a shirt and my	M
Brother's trousers cut my hair short and ignored	T
My womanliness Dress in sarees be girl	U
Be wife they said Be embroiderer be cook	I
Be a quarreller with servants Fit in Oh	V
Belong cried the categorizers Don't sit	N
On walls or peep in through our lace draped windows	H
Be Amy or be Kamala Or better	C
Still be Madhavikutty It is time to	C
Choose a name a role Don't play pretending games	H
Don't play at schizophrenia or be a	Q
Nympho Don't cry embarrassingly loud when	W
Jilted in love I met a man loved him Call	X
Him not by any name he is every man	Y
Who wants a woman just as I am every	S
Woman who seeks love In him the hungry haste	Z
Of rivers in me the oceans' tireless	H
Waiting Who are you I ask each and everyone	E
The answer is it is I Anywhere and	O
Everywhere I see the one who calls himself I	M
In this world he is tightly packed like the	Q
Sword in its sheath It is I who drink lonely	S
Drinks at twelve midnight in hotels of strange towns	H
It is I who laugh it is I who make love	A2
And then feel shame it is I who lie dying	I
With a rattle in my throat I am sinner	C
I am saint I am the beloved and the	Q
Betrayed I have no joys that are not yours no	V
Aches which are not yours I too call myself I	M

Kamala Das

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