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Iftekhar Sayeed

[caption] Family members wailing beside the body of Jubo Dal [ruling party youth wing] leader Sharif (inset) who was shot dead...

- The Bangladesh Observer, April 22, 2003

On the back page of the Observer, I
See, in full colour, one more family
In mourning: three ladies screaming with grief
I cannot hear. The inset holds his head,
Eyes closed, blood smeared across the upper lip
And nose, mouth open, upper row of teeth
Visible, stubble of beard on his chin...
The powerlessness of love frames the frame.
These pictures used to be on the front page
Until there were too many of them, too
Often to be newsworthy: vote machines
Used by both parties, they perhaps serve some
Higher purpose – democracy, for instance,
Whose life-blood, newspapers, his blood will circulate.

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