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Dec 2019
He is unlettered;
Some times hear him read bangle newspaper.
Read letter also if it is arrived to him, write reply that letters.
Often like to him syllable-sense but he fells not.
Bangle syllables appear to him childish pick.
He said, Prophet Muhammad is unlettered.
Fakir Lalon did not reading.

I laugh his talking.
Once, I meet a Japanese poet.
Poet send me Japanese magazine,
That is full of Japanese alphabets.
I looked at the magazine page by page,
Japanese alphabets appear to me pretty drawing.

He stands beside me, looking at the magazine
And says, 'pretty'. I also say, 'pretty'
And fell now no discrepancy between him to me.
We both are unlettered of Japanese alphabets!

Listen, Children born unlettered,
Man unlettered like flower-bird and tree! !
* Lalon Fakir ( 1774--1890):  He was a prominent Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker.
Written by
ferdous mahmud  42/M/bangladesh
(42/M/bangladesh)   
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