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Ashok NiyogiBo Tree Obituary (continued)Today is Vishvakarma day.Vishvakarma – artisan of the universe;Our artisans are on holiday.An eerie silence has arrested the havocHitherto wrecked on our humble abode,And our humdrum lives.Today, tree, I will uproot you slyly;And put you out to sun to dieSo that my house is henceforth dry.“I am Time grown old to destroy the world…” 21Quotation from Gita 10:26, as interpreted by the author2Quotation from Gita 11:32, as interpreted by the author52
Ashok NiyogiElegy to a Flush TapIn India, we still don’t use toilet paper. Mostly.People like me,Who have polluted themselves by crossing oceans back and forthMay have strangely regressed to the unhygienic practice of wiping their ass.But as widely reported,Six hundred and fifty million still defecate in the open.We the fortunate, on the other hand, pass refined and cultured stool.With a little help.Look at my toilet seat.This ‘water-jet’ seat-attached appurtenance is progress.My father sent me to an Irish Christian Brothers’ SchoolAnd I recited “….lend me your ears…” bare-throated,Learnt to cover my Macaulay ass.Now, how can I go out into the fields?Therefore, my ‘inclusive-India’ babies,Let the river wash your backside no more;You’re educated now and part of a United Nations programme;Bring the river into your bathroom on tap,Let it lap.My ‘jet’ has been with me for seventeen years.It has washed my rebellious forties alcoholic bumAnd aged with me, wrinkled with me.My gyrations have changedWith my sciatica, male menopause, with theHorribly fast metamorphosing commerciality of my newspaper;But the jet remains true and intense.If anything, it has gained in intelligence,Like computers do, and generations who are not malnourished anymore.It probes with increasing vigour contours that only age can create;It has adapted to my vegetarianism and the consequent bovinityOf my excretion, it understands that nowadays, in addition,I need a water-massage.But lately, we are renovating. One last time before death,Senility or painful lingering smelly disease.May God bless us in this sinful day and age of warming,Drought and rising oceans.Before the jet abandons us, we are abandoning it.This I lament.A hand-held sprinkler will henceforth dust our backsides53
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