Hands Off!!

Someone please tell Jackie Chan to keep his hands off our garbage.

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13 days (fingers crossed)
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If

If I never walk through Bombay Central again
I will have no regrets.

If I never cross that bridge again
I will not miss the stench of rotting souls
the (some deliberately)
deformed children, men and women in
their permanent, assigned spots
sharing space with motley animals, passersby
dodging, jumping over the prone,
trying to remember that these are humans too.

I will not regret leaving behind
the groping hands of strange men
who mistake passing women
for their mothers or other relatives.

I will not miss the smells, the noise, the clamor
to live;
the hordes coming in with every outstation train.

I will not miss being just a female body
in a world that seems to be inhabited
by men who can't see beyond that.

If I never walk through Bombay Central again
I will have no regrets.