Midnight's child
From SalmanRushdie's Midnight's Children:
(A fortune teller is telling the mother, details of life of her unborn child)
A son... such a son!! 'A son, sahiba, who will never be older than his motherland - neither older, nor younger.'
There will be two heads - but you shall see only one -
there will be knees and nose... a nose and knees!
'Newspaper praises him, two mothers raise him!
Bicyclists love him - but, crowds will shove him!
Sisters will weep; cobra will creep...
Washing will hide him - voices will guide him!
Friends mutilate him - blood will betray him!...
Spitoons will brain him - doctors will drain him - jungle will claim him - wizards reclaim him! Soldiers will try him - tyrants will fry him...
'He will have sons without having sons! He will be old before he's old!
And he will die... before he is dead.'
(A fortune teller is telling the mother, details of life of her unborn child)
A son... such a son!! 'A son, sahiba, who will never be older than his motherland - neither older, nor younger.'
There will be two heads - but you shall see only one -
there will be knees and nose... a nose and knees!
'Newspaper praises him, two mothers raise him!
Bicyclists love him - but, crowds will shove him!
Sisters will weep; cobra will creep...
Washing will hide him - voices will guide him!
Friends mutilate him - blood will betray him!...
Spitoons will brain him - doctors will drain him - jungle will claim him - wizards reclaim him! Soldiers will try him - tyrants will fry him...
'He will have sons without having sons! He will be old before he's old!
And he will die... before he is dead.'
posted by Who me? | 11:31 PM
4 Comments:
Thanku bey.
Such a wonderful way to start my day.
Thanku.
You will surely die before you actually die.
I am already dead... So are you.
No. I am not dead.
You aren't dead either.
You are in love, so you are in heaven.
But, being in heaven doesn't mean you are dead.
anonymous unceel aur batao na plz
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