Indulgence

Nuzhat Amin Mannan
Perhaps I'll allow

myself one of these days

an indulgence--

the perfect idiocy

un-rehearsed

knowing full well

that one of these

days I will

be sitting on a chair

unprimly

my mouth hurting

wide open

so that words

can be extracted

in one theatrical

tweak after another.

Nuzhat A. Mannan teaches English at Dhaka University.