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Empathy

Suddhasanta Nag


My shadow lurks behind me
On a crooked plain I tread


Nailed prophet oozes blood
Accursed wounds refuse to heal


My heart morphed into plastic toy
Incessantly beats the shit out of
Every vessel that leads to its chamber.

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Monami Mukherjee

Monami Mukherjee is an educator and lifelong student of English literature. She studied at Lady Brabourne College and the University of Calcutta, where she completed her MPhil, and has 21+ years of teaching experience. Her interests include Feminism, Post-colonialism and Modernism, and through NibblePop and its YouTube channel she breaks complex texts down into simple, relatable ideas. Read more

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