Jun 2014
Handsome girl
You charge two rupees for your service
And it’s too small for all your distress
Being for sometime my mistress!
But I love those silken cheese
That charge me five rupees
Wet in oiled black curls
Handsomest dark skin girls!
Can’t get me all the white
What I get from her all night
Turn me a slave her power
Aroma of her hair’s flower!
Are you free of shame
O girl what’s your name
Else how you give freely
Yourself for a sum measly!
Someone’s wife or mother
Tell me why I bother
And not pay you in my pity
When you sell you for poverty!
You charge two rupees for your service
And it’s too small for all your distress
Being for sometime my mistress!
But I love those silken cheese
That charge me five rupees
Wet in oiled black curls
Handsomest dark skin girls!
Can’t get me all the white
What I get from her all night
Turn me a slave her power
Aroma of her hair’s flower!
Are you free of shame
O girl what’s your name
Else how you give freely
Yourself for a sum measly!
Someone’s wife or mother
Tell me why I bother
And not pay you in my pity
When you sell you for poverty!
Before the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny in India and especially during the 18th century, ****** relations were quite as exploitative as the East India Company’s other relations with this country. An imagined sketch of that, this write is inspired by Jeremy Paxman's "Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" (2011).
