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Canto 2<br />

The Poet’s journey round India<br />

From Calicut to Plassey<br />

Hippy<br />

Sailing between these tranquil backwaters,<br />

Palm‐fringʹd horizon burst all around me,<br />

Before this treasuregold of Keralaʹs<br />

All made to stand in stark humility,<br />

For scenes like these<br />

Reveal wondʹrous nature ‐<br />

We slipt with sweetenʹd ease into Kollam harbour.<br />

The beatnik & his blues guitar<br />

Stumblʹd on this perfect place,<br />

Clift portion of the Malabar;<br />

Sand, ocean, sun & solace,<br />

But secrets are soon scatterʹd far,<br />

The Western tourists race<br />

To plant their towel standards on the beach<br />

Round which limpet restʹrants & hotels leech.<br />

Muse, speak the man, who since the siege of Troy<br />

So many towns, such change of manners saw<br />

Horace<br />

I dined with maid Slovenian<br />

Talkʹd art, Trieste & Rome,<br />

Slow flirtation! Our supper done<br />

I walkʹd her half‐way home,<br />

To make love mid the wave‐breaks while the moonbeams<br />

snaked the foam.<br />

Varkala

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