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The
Anthropologist
Literature


Aspersions
Promises flow in all directions,
appointments are not kept;
heavy snow fell through the long glowing night
by morning it was all swept.
Shashwat
Jul 162 min read


sleep less nights
Asleep at last on a mattress of snow. Birth has now ended. While much was true while it lasted, all is fiction now that it is no more.
Shashwat
Jul 117 min read


Chernobyl of our Minds, Asphyxiation of Spirit
Few feelings leave more of a bitter taste than that of being used, squeezed dry of vitality and made a cog in some vast machine milking us dry and too blind us to our own misery, shoving in our mouths and minds a bone to chew on, intoxicated by the taste of blood from our own bleeding gums…
Shashwat
Jul 66 min read


A Dog Day Afternoon
He muzzles his way through the glass door inside the cafe, curls up and dozes off.
Shashwat
Jun 135 min read


in the desert
inhabit there with calm solitude
and listen . . .
Shashwat
Apr 241 min read


the missing ear piece
to grow so light of possessions,
quiet as to know a whisper
Shashwat
Mar 302 min read


In Borges
a blind writer meets a blind reader...
Shashwat
Mar 131 min read
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