I always knew I was carrying around a breeding-ground for the devil

Dharker, Imtiaz

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Kunapipi Volume 20 Issue 3 Article 9 1998 Breeding Ground Imtiaz Dharker Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Dharker, Imtiaz, Breeding Ground, Kunapipi, 20(3), 1998. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol20/iss3/9 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: research-pubs@uow.edu.au Breeding Ground Abstract I always knew I was carrying around a breeding-ground for the devil. This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol20/iss3/9 Imtiaz Dharker BREEDING GROUND I always knew I was carrying around a breeding-ground for the devil. I mastered the art of nodding, smirking, doing my hair just so and wearing pink to mask the stink of evil lurking right inside my pride. I could take the cleverest devil for a ride. A good thief cuts the glass quite cleanly, without making a noise and enters. There's hardly any sign that things have been disturbed. That's how the devil got in, slipped into my skin, rearranged my thoughts like old clothes at the change of the season. Slice off my fingertips. I mustn't leave our prints. I'm burgling myself, and I'm so good I won't be caught. There's nothing here I'm afraid to lose. Room after room of dusty corners and mouldy shoes. But what the hell -Where are all the precious things, the gold I thought I had, the soul waiting to be sold? 11 

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