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    The poem describes a man struggling with extreme hunger who follows a fisherman home. In the fisherman's shack, he is offered the fisherman's 15-year-old daughter to satisfy his hunger, suggesting he engage in sexual acts with her. Overcome with hunger and desperation, the man considers the proposal, feeling the "hunger" coming from the young girl as well. The poem depicts the depths that extreme hunger can drive people to in order to survive.

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    The poem describes a man struggling with extreme hunger who follows a fisherman home. In the fisherman's shack, he is offered the fisherman's 15-year-old daughter to satisfy his hunger, suggesting he engage in sexual acts with her. Overcome with hunger and desperation, the man considers the proposal, feeling the "hunger" coming from the young girl as well. The poem depicts the depths that extreme hunger can drive people to in order to survive.

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    The poem describes a man struggling with extreme hunger who follows a fisherman home. In the fisherman's shack, he is offered the fisherman's 15-year-old daughter to satisfy his hunger, suggesting he engage in sexual acts with her. Overcome with hunger and desperation, the man considers the proposal, feeling the "hunger" coming from the young girl as well. The poem depicts the depths that extreme hunger can drive people to in order to survive.

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    Hunger by Jayanta Mahapatra

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    The poem describes a man struggling with extreme hunger who follows a fisherman home. In the fisherman's shack, he is offered the fisherman's 15-year-old daughter to satisfy his hunger, suggesting he engage in sexual acts with her. Overcome with hunger and desperation, the man considers the proposal, feeling the "hunger" coming from the young girl as well. The poem depicts the depths that extreme hunger can drive people to in order to survive.

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    Hunger

    - Poem by Jayanta Mahapatra

    It was hard to believe the flesh was heavy on my back.

    The fisherman said: Will you have her, carelessly,

    trailing his nets and his nerves, as though his words

    sanctified the purpose with which he faced himself.

    I saw his white bone thrash his eyes.

    I followed him across the sprawling sands,

    my mind thumping in the flesh's sling.

    Hope lay perhaps in burning the house I lived in.

    Silence gripped my sleeves; his body clawed at the froth

    his old nets had only dragged up from the seas.

    In the flickering dark his lean-to opened like a wound.

    The wind was I, and the days and nights before.

    Palm fronds scratched my skin. Inside the shack

    an oil lamp splayed the hours bunched to those walls.

    Over and over the sticky soot crossed the space of my mind.

    I heard him say: My daughter, she's just turned fifteen...

    Feel her. I'll be back soon, your bus leaves at nine.

    The sky fell on me, and a father's exhausted wile.

    Long and lean, her years were cold as rubber.

    She opened her wormy legs wide. I felt the hunger there,

    the other one, the fish slithering, turning inside

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