Poem
Earnest brain-burying*
I say brainless burying is a light thing
I was brainless not to know
my brain in formalin
Was helping knowledge groom
while my body in the pit
Was serving daffodils to bloom
I say brainless burial is
brain-ful indeed ———— *[On learning that hospitals retain human brains of the deceased without consent of the family members for medical experiments] Shamsad Mortoza teaches English at Jahangirnagar University.
I was brainless not to know
my brain in formalin
Was helping knowledge groom
while my body in the pit
Was serving daffodils to bloom
I say brainless burial is
brain-ful indeed ———— *[On learning that hospitals retain human brains of the deceased without consent of the family members for medical experiments] Shamsad Mortoza teaches English at Jahangirnagar University.
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