Ganges Dawn
Predawn, everyone’s awake, Kashi’s jumping.
Excluding the homeless thousands who are unawake.
I’m walking cautiously to the ghats in the semi-dark through littered streets, trying to distinguish trash from cardboard and newspaper humps of low-castes sleeping, groaning while sleeping.
Do they dream while they sleep?
Is it a collective dream?
Has their 2000 years of servitude infected their dreams?