While travelling by bus from Madhubani
to Muzaffarpur in Bihar on 28/9/2011 at 6.45 am
I wrote this poem in my Diary when the bus hit
a motorbike
parked on
the pavement and the ensuing broil delayed the bus for an hour
and finally refused to go ahead, I was forced
to take another bus
and I covered
the distance in many hours :
The worshippers
Of Ma Durga
Are dancing on the screen
Break(-ing) dance
And song
Do not match,
Though they match well
The level of decadence
That has gripped the state
People are happy
Prosperous and complacent
Happy in their own
World of words
And work brazenly
Towards Setting goals
Proving again and again
That human being
Is a goal-setting animal!
Sets goals
For going back into
The light
of darkness
And
delightful delirium
Like an
amphibian in a well
Calling hell a heaven
And heaven a hell!
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