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Geet Chaturvedi

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PLUGGED EARS

How wonderful
I've plugged ears
Can't hear
What's bad around me

What's good
I'll smell and know
My nose is not clogged yet

Eyes I don't trust
They just see films

PLUGGED EARS

Geet Chaturvedi

(India, 1977)

Geet Chaturvedi is a critically acclaimed Hindi poet and novelist based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He has five books to his credit, including two collections of novellas and two collections of poems, Aalaap Mein Girah (2010) and Nyoontam Main (2015). He has translated into Hindi the poems of Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Adonis, Czeslaw Milosz, Adam Zagajewski, Bei Dao, Dunya Mikhail, Im...

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PLUGGED EARS

How wonderful
I've plugged ears
Can't hear
What's bad around me

What's good
I'll smell and know
My nose is not clogged yet

Eyes I don't trust
They just see films

PLUGGED EARS

How wonderful
I've plugged ears
Can't hear
What's bad around me

What's good
I'll smell and know
My nose is not clogged yet

Eyes I don't trust
They just see films