language is a venereal sore in the private area. Namdeo Dhasal is the unconventional Marathi poet who has little official education. Born in 1949 into an ex-"untouchable" community in the Maharashtra village of Pur-Kanersar, close to Pune, he lived among pimps, prostitutes, small-time criminals, drug dealers, gangsters, and illegal traders as a young taxi driver. He established Dalit Panther, a militant group modelled after Black Panther, in 1972. Golpitha, which is a member of the tradition in contemporary urban poetry starting with Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, was published the same year. He has since released eight books of poetry, from which this sample was taken. In 2004,