Daytimes
my Daddy
carries mail
while I’m sitting
here in school
Evenings
shopkeeper
he
and his salesman
I
sells fresh produce
Mama
and kerosene
I
at the biggest circle
where lovely women up on
giant billboards
when nighttimes
the lamps flicker
and it’s fragrant
children work at
lessons for school
Quite good
That’s me at numbers
Especially
fond of English.
Sudhir Kumar is my name
I am
9
From Stories without Borders. Forthcoming from Wiesenburg Verlag, Schweinfurt. Copyright Anant Kumar. By arrangement with the author and publisher. All rights reserved.
