Response Poem 2 - Kumar Abhimanyu
In response to Agha Shahid Ali's 'Cremation'. Your bones refused to burn when we set fire to flesh. who would have guessed you'd be stubborn in death. But not enough to come back lying there making fun of us, I guess. We had to break your skull with sticks while crying, asking you to come back. maybe we were stubborn too... No. Fools! Fools. That we were! You, me. All of us.