KAMA SUTRA, ET CETERA: THE MOVIE REVIEW

by Mytili

comments by:

Kerry


[Epigraph] "Did you girls think this movie
was a comedy?  You were laughing through the whole
thing.  You really ruined the spirituality."

--white man to two Indian women after the screening
of Mira Nair's _Kama Sutra_ at the Roxy, Philadelphia


I'm searching--what can I say?
It's one of my passions--rapture--

but like all passions, deserves a
parsing.  Of course, this could cost

more than you want it to mean.                                                 
A toss-up, loss of center, a

graphic wick, a little wilderness
mist from a bottle--Bath and

Body Works overtime for
otherness, no pay.  What dark lists

in your logical arbors?  What
missionized immigrant to fuck

and dispense the postures
of fucking?  Morning turns to

night, but their conversation is
indecipherable.  A long slash

down a tearless cloud, a skyful of
Rajasthan, bangles and liner notes.                                            

Unveiled and unveiled, a man
transcendently white, absorbing.

Or a man absorbently
white, transcending?

And in the next seat, a hieroglyph
of glitches!  Some female

one locked in a rational
body!  Who would think in all

these centuries!  Oh Mira, director-
sister, sex is overdone or overdue but

seldom pronounced
gaily enough.                                                                  




Accourding to Kerry Sherin:

Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:52:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: ksherin@dept.english.upenn.edu (Kerry Sherin)

Mytili (and Hannah),

Lovely to read both of your poems -- funny to get them -- it's great to
have poems pop up on the email queue  -- I go right for them!

M, I especially like the near-to-last few stanzas here:


Or a man absorbently
white, transcending?                                                           

And in the next seat, a hieroglyph
of glitches!  Some female

one locked in a rational
body!  Who would think in all

these centuries!

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I.e., the exclamatory parts!

Just popping up to record this reader's pleasure --

--K.