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Masuda Khan Juti Sep 2018
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In the water that serpents drink and fishes mate in,
humans clean their pots.

The water drinks that dirt and oil,
it savours that hint of turmeric and burnt potato skin. It's a complete meal.
A woman was cleaning her pots by the surma river. In sylhet
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Masuda Khan Juti Dec 2016
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I am flattered that you like me.
I feel the attraction towards you.
I'd like to hold your hand.
  Kiss your caramel lips.
Hold you tight
on a starry night.
And put my hand
through your hair.
But
living in this era
and within
this generation
I know
attraction doesn't last.
About this
   you must be aware too...
so now before
time's up, come on!
Make me fall in love
with you.
The thing about this poem is that I'd actually never say it to the guy.
Specifically I'd never say the last four lines. Nope. I don't want to fall in love. Idk why
Masuda Khan Juti Aug 2016
I like playing with words
Sometimes drinking coffee
I imagine I'm a ballerina drawing swords
To make my mind flee -
I need no drugs
But the little man in my coffee cup shrugs,
He whispers
'try some sativa'
I am stubborn
I pick him by his toes
And feed him to the bugs
'Viva!
The independent mind!' Says Shiva!
I'm now a samurai...
doing ballet moves.
Masuda Khan Juti Nov 2019
rolling drop of sweat
slowly slowly drops.
From the bottom of your breast
aiming straight it falls
On your thigh it tries to rest - but ah
--- it's a sticky plummet.
Masuda Khan Juti Aug 2016
I start ghost hunting at 5 am
I catch little spirits which
I eat with some butter and jam

some days I'm lucky
I catch old souls
Cleopatra,
Frank Sinatra,

Adolf ******
reading
the Kama Sutra

If I don't eat them before
they get into
my head,
they'll make sure I am
dead.
Masuda Khan Juti Feb 2018
Was cutting
My nails when
the very last one
jumped up
So high
It flew up
Look- the sky
Masuda Khan Juti May 2017
These waters caressed
a thousand dead bodies.

Young and old men,
mothers, their children.

The water listened,
it heard their
submerged howls,

Slowly
growing drunk
of their brittle
little-souls.
Masuda Khan Juti Feb 2019
When crossing roads look.
Look left, look right.
When kissing your lover,
don't look. Stay blind.
Masuda Khan Juti Dec 2019
When we look out the window we hear
there is a ringing sound that will never end.
Engulfed in noise and in dust submerged
tiny men walk a thousand steps        
Yellow -
the city has been yellow -
ever since the machines
arrived.    
Heat -
The november sun melts all the tall buildings
until the twists and turns
of the voice
call a break for prayer

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