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I'll read one more ghazal
because they're fun to read.

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This one came from
a, once again,

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all the couplets go
all over the place.

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But it came from a
quote from the Urdu poet

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz, whom I
did not read in Urdu, only

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in translation.

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Who said that poetry
was what was left

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after the loss of the beloved.

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''Lines that grapple doubt,
written because of the beloved.

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When grief subsides,
what survives

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the loss of the beloved.

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Your every declaration
is suspect,

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that was at least the
departing gloss of the beloved.

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Were you merely a
servant of the state?

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Or now you give the coin
a toss of the beloved.

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How pure you were,
resistant in an orchard.

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Peace with justice, the
cause of the beloved.

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A scent of hyacinth
clings to your fingers

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of sap from a broken leaf,
of moss, of the beloved.

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Ambiguous predators
howl within earshot.

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You would like to curl
up between the paws

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of the beloved.

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Now uniform cite
scripture to erase you,

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only rabble and vermin die
under the laws of the beloved.

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Who signed the warrant
that sealed you

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in this cell, who
read your messages,

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who was the boss of the beloved?

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How pure you were, how
abject you are now,

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waterboarded after the
double-cross of the beloved.

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You are promised release
on the recognizance,

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will this be a redemptive
clause of the beloved?''

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