Everything ‘s under control & A Pinched honour, two poems by Ram Mehta

      Everything ‘s under control

      Cataclysm and cark are held at bay,
      There runs the national psyche at quay
      Of Osama bin Laden’s mere barbarity.
      Don’t worry: your safety is on priority.

      To protect yourself you got to pay price,
      To defend yourself, you got to sacrifice,
      Never free are protection and defense.
      Don’t worry: less alive if you sense.

      So ineffective is screening of passengers,
      At both the public and private locations,
      People still board with dangerous weapons.
      Don’t worry: you need safety’s impressions.

      An illusion of safety is quite so titanic
      To assuage the underlying sense of panic.
      If stressed, seek that hot spurt of enthrall.
      Don’t worry: everything’s under control!

      A Pinched honour

      The idea that only a male can achieve,
      Seems to be a most serious heresy,
      As the idea that only a male can
      Represent the Christ at the alter.

      What a heroic honour and welcome!!!!
      Many a men envy you, Jessica Lynch.
      You got more than what you pinched.
      Guinness Book of World Record
      Has fallen short of your fame.

      Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse,
      The British novelist George Eliot
      And White-house-fame Monica
      Smile and chuckle at your story.



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