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39 To Live Is a Mechanistic Torture To live is a mechanistic torture We can realize why girls who commit suicide cutting open their vaginas leave no farewell note And how the bones of children flex Like a tree’s green bough This tree is native to Pakistan We know on which banquet table our national colors are polishing apples However, of witnesses there are four categories and the verdict is always legibly penned We cannot be likened to the girl who does not know what it means to give consent And is loath to kiss the queen’s black brassieres and her three thousand shoes The poison administered us shall not be expelled from our body through tears 40 Looking through the venetian blind we could see how the sea wolves are impregnating our women and where our equations are being solved Still it lies on us to inform the man trying to pull out with his finger tips the invisible thread that to live is also a phantasmal torture ...

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