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4/10/2009
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FOR THE AITCHISON CLASS OF 2009
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Tonight, under this star-lit sky
We grieve,
as you leave
To ta ...
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6/17/2003
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SURELY WE CAN TALK AGAIN
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ON THE NEED FOR INDO-PAK RECONCILIATION
Surely we can talk ag ...
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6/11/2003
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LET US RETURN TO THE KINDERGARTEN
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Let us return to the kindergarten of 1947.
Let us learn another alp ...
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6/10/2003
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THE LION KING
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On the issue of whether President General Pervez Musharraf would relin ...
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6/2/2003
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THE COUNTERFOILS OF MY YEARS
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Would you mind holding my life for a second?
I want to count the co ...
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6/1/2003
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I HAVE A HOLE IN MY HEART
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I have a hole in my heart
where my conscience should be.
Severed a ...
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6/1/2003
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I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED HOW TO PRAY
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I should have learned how to pray
while God was still young,
care ...
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5/25/2003
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RETIREMENT
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ON THE PROSPECT OF RETIREMENT
I am not dead yet; yet I am told
...
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5/18/2003
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A PART OF ME DIED AT KARBALA
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On the invasion of Iraq by US forces.
A part of me died at Karbal ...
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9/26/1998
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FOR AMAJI
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Your life has shriveled to its close.
All that remains are the protr ...
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3/18/1998
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IN FIDELIS
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On the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky scandal, 18 March 1998.
...
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5/7/1991
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I HAVE TO GO AWAY
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I have to go away
to slough off this blemished skin
and scrape my ...
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8/28/1990
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IN VITRO
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ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION, August 1990.
When birth preced ...
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8/24/1990
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COLOUR ME GREEN
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On the corruption charges framed against Ms Benazir Bhutto as Prime Mi ...
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8/19/1990
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COMING HOME
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On returning home after spending nine years in Abu Dhabi, 19 August 19 ...
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8/17/1990
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THIS PRECIOUS KNIFE
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On the Accountability Bureau, 17 August 1990.
A knife, unlik ...
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8/17/1990
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SHAISTA
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Buried 17 August, 1990.
We interred her on a foetid day;
Th ...
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8/15/1990
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BURIED BUT NOT DEAD
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On the death of Democracy, 15 August 1990.
Hand me that used wrea ...
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11/18/1971
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UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN
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On the birth of a deformed set of twins, reported in the newspapers on ...
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3/1/1971
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ROLL ON, ROOLDOO
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On the common usage of the same caterers for weddings as for funerals. ...
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2/18/1971
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TORN SHIRTS AND BROKEN HEADS
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Written on 18 February 1971, following an incident at Karachi during w ...
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8/1/1970
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PAY AS YOU LEARN
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Written on the trade prevalent in examination papers.
“Get up, ...
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7/1/1970
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THE MORTIS CAUSA
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Written after a visit to the Central Board of Revenue, Islamabad.
...
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4/20/1967
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THOUGHTS ELBOW
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Thoughts elbow in my brain
for pre-eminence - in vain,
for they a ...
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3/1/1967
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DON'T WEEP
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Don't weep my love, for tears
will only stain pure years
of abstin ...
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3/1/1967
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NIGHTLESS DAWN
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Swathed in damp hope I lay
and traded dreams with God
for prayers ...
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3/1/1967
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SONNET
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Sperms we were, germs we are
Are worms to be oiur destiny?
Can thi ...
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7/1/1966
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COLD PRAYERS
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Written on the construction of Lahore’s first air-conditioned mosque i ...
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