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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Girls of the Old City

These adolescent girls
who could be barely called women
are taught to invest their beauty to find men.

They are encouraged
To play certain roles--
Either an obedient daughter,
Or an obedient wife having no freedom
of their own carnal pleasure,
And later to an young mother
--emphasizing the value of procreation.

Lucknow, India 





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