Instant Karma
The office cleaner sings beautifully and in Hindi.
I ask her what her song means.
‘The Lord says, I will give you what you want,
when the time is right.’
She leaves a world bright with belief,
the mopped floor under my feet,
the emptied bin of me.
(from Gopagilla, first published in New Walk Magazine, Issue 1)
Roy Marshall is a nurse, househusband and writer. His pamphlet Gopagilla is available from Crystal Clear and a full collection is forthcoming from Shoestring Press in 2013.
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