Poems in English / Village philosophy
Son-in-Law to Weeping
I badly want to marry the daughter of Weeping,set up house,and farm tears without a pause.
Exporting tears by the ton,I would rise into a multinational trader.
Owner of many rivers and seas,I would say: I too am a great lover.I would take every product of sorrow hostageand hold it in the warehouse.
It is my great wish that Weeping should be my fond father-in-law.
Masud Pathik. Translated from the Bengali.