god my darling
do me a favor and kill my mother-in-law
Janabai (13th century).
trans. Arun Kolatkar
Chewing slowly,
Only after I'd eaten
My grandmother,
Mother,
Son-in-law,
Two brothers-in-law,
And father-in-law
(His big family included)
In that order,
And had for desert
The town's inhabitants,
Did I find, says Kabir,
The beloved that I've become
One with.
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K A B I R
Songs of Kabir
translated Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
New York Review of Books
