On Making Eating Unbearable by Pankhuri Sinha
Poem about the difficulties of enjoying modern life with invasiveness and stressful events. How this affects women.
Worse
Digesting
Any and all of it
Food
Air
The smell of conspiracy
People’s war
The total occupation of privacy
Just digesting it
Without a pill
Digestion
That amazing thing
That happens
Inside
The very thin and curvy waists of women
Although
When she lifted her shirt today
The curve of it
Simply seemed straighter
With the thinning of everything she had
Except
Unnecessary complaint papers
Even
The description of all her work
Kept getting thinner
In an air thick with people’s talk
Mobilization
And a war around leaving
Constant moving.
About The Author
The poem digs deep.. It dwells on the essential existential crisis that envelopes us How we get caught up in cocoons of breathless bondage, be it of ecology food, air, nature, relationships , encroachments into our private precious self, or the octopus grip of work pressure.. the protagonist poetic self is giving us raw slices of life. Excellent thought well couched! In right diction.