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PO,
ORAM PO.
Your
day begins as mine ends.
You
sip your coffee and read your paper
And
dress up leisurely to start for office
We
wipe our faces and wash our hands
And
draping the same towel, start for home
Eager
to rest after a break-back night.
As
you hurry to work in an A/C car,
Crawling
along at a slow-paced sixty,
Anger
suffuses you at the mere sight of us
Hogging
the road you paid taxes for
And
so you scream at us in road-rage
At
both two legs and four.
You
roll down the window
And
shout loud “Po, Po Oram Po
You
slow movers, stop blocking my way
Who
allowed you all on these roads?
I
will write to the editor of The Hindu about you,
Nuisance
and nonsense, fire and fiddlesticks,
Bullocks
and buffaloes hogging the road”
Swallow
your anger saar,
We
go as soon as we can,
You
forget that as fast as you move,
You
run on four wheels pushing a 1000 horse power
While
we do it on a double bullock power
And
one starved and skinny at that.
So
bear with us O master, curse us not
We
move as fast as we can, honest.
We
hurry home to our hut work done
To
hide before you lot arrive on the streets
We
hide that we work the night, all night
To
leave your roads and your city spotless.
For
we know our place in this country of ours
We
know that your India is not my Bharath
And
till the two meet someday
We
will Go, Oram Go.
