Oct. 2

Facebook Alert: Oct. 2, Gandhi's birthday. Please wish him the BEST.

A dance in the air.
Tuka, Kabira, Gandhi on
staffs
tap-danced morning quiet
on Marine Drive.
Happy Birthday, Bapu, they said.
A wisty Bapu nodded.
All in a dance.
'Can you gentlemen do me a favour?'
Gandhi jazzed.
Tuka, Kabira waltzed Old Man:
'Anything for you.'
'Can you put in a word to Rama?' asked
Old Man.
They dropped into the Sea
in laughs..
Sea returned them.
For aeons,
Tuka and Kabira were friends of Ram.
Mobiled.
'Will you bhakts leave me alone?
Its a public holiday,'
snapped a sleepy Siya Ramji ki.
'Sorry, a third bhakt of yours wants a favour,'
said Kabira.
'Sir, Please can you delete me? pleaded Gandhi.
Siya Ramji ki tinged and tanged.
Nuisance is Gandhi.
'Have been trying to get my name scratched.
It has not worked.
I can try.
You, me and Ravana are cursed from birth.
In memory pads ever.
Get Tuka and Kabira
to be silent from Rama, Krishna, Hari,'
pleaded Siya Ramji ki.
Gandhi hung up.
Chewing vada pav and kante pohe
to Ram Dhun of Tuka and Kabira,
Siya Ramji ki placed a few words on
a paper plate on Marine Drive.
'Should not have taken the job.
BP, diabetes, thyroid, bypass....
Yet the power over files ....
more pending than cleared ...
aam janata with folded palms
filing past ....
awarding penalty points....'
Siya Ramji ki said.
'Quit,' said Gandhi.
'Did you?' returned Siya Ramji ki.
Sea bobbed, traipsed ........
A dance in the wind.