Sanjeev Sethi

INDURATION

To match footsteps with crooks and cozeners
he masters their makings. It isn’t easy to alter
conscience. But avarice is a skilled coach. He
bows to the wizard of wantonness. Machinations
are his meals, doublespeak his thirst quencher.
The strong room masks his malfeasance.


Gerald So reads "Induration":



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Sanjeev confesses: "Vexed by the system we’re witness to professionals, doctors, lawyers, journalists, joining the political process in order to cleanse it, but with the passage of time one detects their deterioration. The poem illustrates this: with sadness."

SANJEEV SETHI is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). A Best of the Net nominee (2017, 2018), his poems are in venues around the world: Poydras Review, The Rye Whiskey Review, Miller’s Pond, Litbreak, Red Savina Review, Persian Sugar in English Tea Vol. 111, The Best of Mad Swirl: v2017!, Ink Pantry, Amethyst Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.