13.5x20.5 inches; Watercolour, pen and ink over graphite pencil on handmade paper (Click on image to enlarge)
I walk down the road
Stepping to the beat
Of your insults and gibes.
The side long glances,
Disgust rising with bile,
A lingering threat of
Courting harm for my
Denial of nonexistence!
“Sala Chhakka...”spat out
Your failure to define me!
It falls flat, I turn the corner
Resuming my well-rehearsed moves!
I have lost enough life practicing
