Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Song 169


Modak times.
Tuka, Kabira
lined up at the lab
for blood
and BP tests;
a nurse syringed blood
from forearms;
reports would be late
as staff were on Ganesh offs.
In air conditioned labs with sofas
played chor, police
to pass time.
No coins to toss as the last fiver
went to kachrawali Krishna;
pulled out debit cards
when they are not tossed at IPLs.
Tuka won the toss,
opted chor,
Kabir police.
Game got real.
Kabir's unlicensed loom,
Tuka's tamboora
hauled by roving municipal vans.
Normal, said reports.
Traipsed to Ganesh pandals
for Modak bites;
Ganesh with Modak belly,
offered Modak sites.
Humans in
Modak times.  

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