Poetry at Sangam

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DRUNK by Shankha Ghosh

(Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha.)

Make him a little more drunk
How else will he
Bear this world easily.

He’s still young, lord!
Age him now, then –
How else will this
World bear him easily.

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