Masturbation | Maun Awaj

-Maun Awaj

I'm jobless.

 

Early in the dawn

I feed some sward to the growing Sun

Shut the rash wind in a shack

Go, then, out in shorts.

 

Reaching the river

I pee and crap,

Take a bath,

Hold a newspaper

The photographs of Leaders rile me

So I fire a ganja spliff

 

I look at a print of a half-nude girl

In a corner,

Watching it—I masturbate.

I tear keep into the pocket

The part of the newspaper that writes 'Nation'

The rest of it—I wipe off the semen with.

Translated by Hem Bishwakarma