Three Poems by Ganesh Puthur (Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in Malayalam language, 2023) A Speech for a Dictator One day I will write a speech for a dictator With a lot of commas Where he shall pause in grief for all the blood he has on his hands. A podium with sharp legs shall be erected For him to speak, Piercing into the flesh of innocents he had massacred. His fellow countrymen will stand in disbelief, Somebody should be murmuring “He is either hallucinating