mornings, widow walks the labrador;
widower walks lady labrador;
the dog loves the lady;
the widower loves the widow.
...........
ranga, the barber, grew with grandfather.
verur village had one barber,
one tailor,
one ironsmith,
many brahmins flaunting unkind writs.
on monthly visits, shaved grandfather
entirely;
left with two annas, a white mundu,
locked the wooden tool-box inherited
from a tonsured tradition.
grandmother flavoured the floor with
cow dung after ranga departed;
that night, her man looked trim,
did not leave for another woman.
shaving on amavasya,
ranga spotted a snapped thread line
on grandfather's pate;
passed the news to grandmother.
ranga's grandson started on my friend
the day he was baptised a sacred thread
brahmin.
my friend migrated to a city
to hunched up barbers
at street corners
doing ancestral favours.
widower walks lady labrador;
the dog loves the lady;
the widower loves the widow.
...........
ranga, the barber, grew with grandfather.
verur village had one barber,
one tailor,
one ironsmith,
many brahmins flaunting unkind writs.
on monthly visits, shaved grandfather
entirely;
left with two annas, a white mundu,
locked the wooden tool-box inherited
from a tonsured tradition.
grandmother flavoured the floor with
cow dung after ranga departed;
that night, her man looked trim,
did not leave for another woman.
shaving on amavasya,
ranga spotted a snapped thread line
on grandfather's pate;
passed the news to grandmother.
ranga's grandson started on my friend
the day he was baptised a sacred thread
brahmin.
my friend migrated to a city
to hunched up barbers
at street corners
doing ancestral favours.
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