On the election day in Kolkata
Green with envy
The footpath-sleeper of Paik Para
First turned red and then green
The sleeper on the Chowringhee footpath
Boasted an upmarket address.
Painting genius
Driver Mondol’s talented son
Paints election billboards
He gets full fifty bucks
For painting Mamata Didi’s chubby cheeks.
Heavy haulage
A hungry pullcartman hauled
A heavyset seth from Shyam Bazaar for money
Not enough even for mistidoi .
Violence in love
An old arthritic tram
Molested an artistic spinster bus
Transforming her into a dimpled beauty
.
It soots his lungs
The Shyam Bazaar cop breathes in diesel
As though it were eau-de-cologne
Under his snow-white uniform
His lungs are black as a sooty kitchen wall.
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