Man Shitting on a Mound of Despair

Man Shitting on a Mound of Despair, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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Shitting on a mound of despair or cursed by fate sitting on a mound of despair would mean the same thing to this man who saw me in the cab returning home after shooting the Matryamma Feast Macchimar Colony 2010..

I was in the cab without my Tshirt and we connected for a singular karmic moment he read my thought I read his..


And this is the stretch that leads you out from Dharavi towards Bandra East connecting me to Bandra West through the flyover.

All men born rich or poor are equal when they shit, be it on a mound or a gilded toilet seat, the wise man the fool the beautiful the ugly are all one bound to what goes in must come out..

So shitting on a mound of despair is a spiritual exercise too..

on a mound of despair
he shits moistened memories
hardened by hard times in bits
he sees cars passing by to wit
darkness all around unlit
a little water to wash his ass
on a shitting pit his fucked fate
wrinkled sorrow writ
like on a slow track
an act a tedious skit
his wealth the air
he breathes that's it
his legacy of pain
to his children's
children he will
transmit
he came he saw
he could not
make it
he could have killed
somebody robbed looted
to gain what was not his
but such acts he did not commit
it was when he was born his
fucked fate got hit
he was too poor
the rich mans luck
he could not buy it
every time
he asked a
somnolent god
to bless him
god living
in a rich mans
paradise
threw a fit
told him when
his time comes
to slit his wrist
he can call it quits
for the moment
to a fucked life
his fucked fate
he must submit