Tuesday, June 30, 2020

A Partition: Tooting, South London ~ Tuesday, June 30, 2020

As a Goan of South Asian descent, 
some people take note of a certain date, 

a date like August 15: Partition. 

Given your submission period starts 
on this date and ends on April 1, known 
as April Fools Day to pranksters worldwide, 
no one will mind if I find it funny, 

of course, not funny ha-ha, but funny 
for the fact that people don't have a clue. 

Simply put, the British made a good joke 
of leaving India and Pakistan, 
under the auspices of their good will, 
the British have no good will, no good faith, 
how they start wars they cannot even end? 

Asians from the Subcontinent take note, 
stupidity in government is not 
ignorance but willful neglect, a slap 
across the face, with nearly two million 
needlessly dead, the numbers could be less, 

difficult to make a joke of the dead, 
even though the British did 
such a good job of making a shambles, 
certain people wonder how South Asians 
enter into British politics with 
no sense of irony, well, not unlike 
the Mayor of London, Sadiq Aman Khan. 

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