ONE SHOULD WALK, LOOKING DOWN TO THE STREET/VISHNU PRASAD /TRANS:SANATHANAN

VISHNU PRASAD

One should walk,

looking down to the street

Then only he could see

half burned matches,

crushed cigarette buds,

ashen sweet wrappers

And the lottery tickets

of the unlucky ,

under his feet.

One should walk

looking down to the street

Then only he could hear

the remindings of the street

that this earth

is the churchyard

of the dumped