despairing writers & columnists.
The desire to say
something
even venom
even women on women
neon curry illumination of gob & arse
in the multicultural war
take care of reactionary mini-mobs.
What is Germaine Greer doing?
Attacking women’s writing and the imagination
siding with the patriarch
trying to score multicultural points
out out manouevered.
Why not descend into silence
from this point on high.
Brick Lane itself is silent for women
I do not not know this
& Salman Rushdie settling an old score
Why not & & & & & & &
If homogenous block of a culture
then men men men
Please don’t decapitate women.
Hide the Bengali version under the veil
& read the book.