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Birds Eye View
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Red crow perched on window sill
Low paid workers before the mill
Mills' gate is chained, locked shut
Pot bellied, grease bags, graveyard watchmen
The politicians with insatiable glut
Brightly coloured flags and festoons
Held by masked political goons
Breeding on honest cityzen's money
Trading subcriptions for words of honey
Long, forcefull fiery deliberations, slogans
Lies! Lies! Utter lies! Fairy tales!
Goons thrive on passion, money only mission
Masked political sharks lie comfy
The newsmongers take sides, fake sides
Click pictures from all known angles
Common man, the sparrow, looks on
The sparrow-ill educated city churl
Ears jingling with Indipop from earphones
Its the workers' pay day!
The factory is locked!.... A strike!!
Who really cares for the hapless workers?
A day must come when the sparrow will realise
The falsehood, the deception-then he may rise
Rip off those coloured masks-exposing the disguise
Freedom we do not deserve
Our country's glory we're unable to preserve
Apeing the West- throwing away values and norms
It is now a deceptive world-and we .............. crawly worms
© Bishwanath Mukherjee
