[43] The Lunatic, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, [Posthumously] Translator Manjushree Thapa

Surely, my friend, I am mad,
That’s exactly what I am!
I see a word,
Hear sights,
Taste smells,
I touch things thinner than air,
Those things,
Whose existence the world denies,
Whose shapes the world does not know.

Translator Thapa, Manjushree (11 October 2002). “Poetry for a deranged time.” Nepali Times.