Poetry at Sangam
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Though she never understood
Goddess Lakshmi stood
In full public view
In the Bank of India queue,
That serpent-fashion wound
Its sinuous way around
Khan Market right up to
the Lodhi Garden ground.
Goddess Lakshmi said
Even as she smote her head
(pimpled with beads of sweat)
That mirrored the burning sun
“What have these wise men done?
How do I gift a sea port
To devotee Adani?
Or a Western Ghat Fort
( I am some billions short)
To my favourite Ambani?”
The goddess didn’t think of slums
and the horde of jobless bums
Her Bank in disrepair,
She spoke with not her usual flair
“Please bring in the goats
To whom I’ll feed my notes.”
← Keki Daruwalla
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