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Revisiting the Canon through the Ghazal in English 199Webb also challenges the subject matter, the mysticalseriousness, of the early lyric form by inserting various “trivial,”irreverent or mocking humorous incidents in her anti-ghazals:Ah Ghalib, you are drinking too much,Your lines are becoming maudlin.Here, take this tea and sober up. The moonis full tonight, and I can’t sleep.And look – this small branch of cherryblossoms, picked today, and it’s only February.You could use a few cool Japanese imagesto put you on the straight and narrow.Still, I love to study your graceful script,Urdu amorous, flowing across the page.There were nights I watched you dip your peninto the old Persian too, inscribe ‘Asad’with a youthful flourish. Remember Asad,Ghalib?Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, who are you really?Born in Agra, of Turkish ancestry,Fond of women, politics, money, wine.‘Losses and consequent grief’ a recurringtheme, also ‘a poetry…of what was,what could have been possible.’Ah! Ghalib, you are almost asleep,head on the table, hand flung out,upturned. In the blue and white jar