Sonepur Fair, Gumrahi Tart's Evening

A villager visits a fair in Sonepur where animals are sold but meets instead a ladylove.

Sonpur Fair, Evening of Gumrahi Tart

Sliding jute curtain

flickers in tent lantern

dot beauty gait her

small coins in betel  box

was counting tobacco scent

in broken wine glasses

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half naked on rope cot

coin colour  country liquor

leather shoes well oiled

beat stick resting at corner

and yellow stain turban

cheese-penis landlord

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atoned in elephant s**t

put red petticoat on shoulder

switched song amplifier

hemp torn milk wet

eye on eye sharp dark

depends on who is beneath

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myrobalan under tongue

betel nut cutter in waist

box full of scent tobacco

corset on blown breast

strung undies on string

one suck tumbling tart

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artificial hair on bamboo pole

hypnotized hornet-man

mosquito on naked bum

his thighs are of mafioso

one and five coins for police

she is whatever fair or pure

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( Translation of ‘Shonpur Mela, Gumrahi Baier Sandhya’ )

Ruffian