Cousin Lefty Missed in Mumbai

Cousin Lefty Missed in Mumbai, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

cousin lefty
shooting the Piccadilly circus
the birthday suit race
a very far cry
while here among hijras
the heat and humidity
I burn and fry
under a city's
rainless cry
a 10% water cut
a municipal reply
a ckhoking neck
a noose like neck tie
the slums the stink
the human pigsty
yet in spite of all this
the politicians want
to make Mumbai
into another Shanghai
linen in public hung to dry
a breakfast of omelet
kheema and bheja fry
with a seminal stained cup
of pani kam chai
the hijra with women s soul
in a body of a guy..
clapping their hands
near my shop
you will spy
hijras are human
you wont deny