Would you believe it?

Youd better BETTER not Believe it.

If you don't know what to believe

in what you are being told you must better believe in.

Like the sterling stuff

Being ALL MADE UP

To be more puffed

up and powerful

and phool-chadi explosive

 Than all the murmura

and poha,  and kurkura, 

Haldirams and Lays

can come together

OR COME APART 

to think up and

pack up and

sell to us

as packed lunches

Being served

OH SO free

As free lunches

by the state finances!

Through

DOKHA DWACRA DUKHAAN

MAG-ICK tricks

TRICKS Of THE trades

BEING DONE UP

BUT WHERE OH WHERE

EXCEPT IN THE WORLD

OF MAD MAD MAD ADS!

As is being all

polished up

and buttoned in

and zipped up

and oh so!  hepped up

And dished out

BY THE GOVERNMENT

OF ANDHRA PRADESH

STATE ADS!

Does it grab you fast

This gabfest?

Pull you up and up

By the scruff of your neck

With you Collared in

And all buttoned up

And bothered about democracy going

ever so crazy?

Grab you does it you

By your fast fading

attention?

UnLike the ever so

slow-in-fading

Into the horizon

Indian Politician.

Who aint done

Their Time Yet.

To call it a day

And go away.

Into a decent sunset

Once their done with

Their five-yearly stint

Which they must

by sheer dint

Of decency decorum

and kith

Waiting in the  wings

to take over

and run with all

the sarkari scrounging

Not withstanding.

They must

Step down

not making way

for their kith and kin

akin to kings. 

Because after one stint

They are no good for anything

Nor are they kings

To stay and stay

Till their dying day.

Waiting for the state

to pick up the tab

On their final farewells

and buy entry tickets

Into their other worlds.

THIS IS DEMOCRACY

BY REPUBLIC

AND REGULAR FIVE YEARLY ELECTIONS

FOR GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME SAKES

so QUIT

talking

or doing

THE GOOD GOVERNANCE

TAKES

For goodness graceless me GASESSAKES!

But the way they are here

They are those Who

won't let go

Of anything called

a garam gorameant kursi

Into which he/she

[because this a recurring nightmare whoever is i the chair]

will chip-khao

into

like a doubly licked

superglue

but sans a

quick-working

 but not knowing

what to do clue

about going once

their term of five

is done with.

but to stick

like a long forgotten

stick-it reminder

unremaindered

With A generous

dollop of FEVICOL SPREAD

LIKE UTTERLY BUTTERLY IRRESISTABLE but and

YET EVER SO UNSEATABLE

but not so desirable

to stay for too long

in places where the air

is so thin

and high-strung. 

And hang in there

and hang on in

to that chair

there

To derive

the dubious distinction

Of having arrived

by way of a

ruin-bow coalition

floated after the elections

like a lets-gang-up and hang-together raft

running without a rift

because all they are doing

is going with the drift

[get my drift?]

like driftwood floating

in the high seas

till it finds

a shore of

a sand of time

to get washed upon.

And hang in there

hand in hand

hugging the chair

and hung in there

For ever so long

Under a ruin-bow coalition

Kow-towing to the mystique

of power distributing

And hanging on to power

For oh so! and ever so LONG.

Even if the only

SAVING GRACE

In saying about

HIS/her STAYING POWER

Was how long it took her/him

To do up growing

as in grow so old

but still stay young

Enough to stay on

And try once more!

But surely that pales

Into HEART-FELT regales

At Beating the Drum

Of Democracy

By  that

PRAVDA OF INDIA

CALLED

INDIA TODAY

WHO MUST PEN IN

THEIR

PAEANS OF PRAISES

TO STAY IN THE BUSINESS

Of selling surf detergent washed

Sophistries

As Socrates,  Sophocles

and Sisyphus too!!!

[because he must roll up

the burden of THE stone

once over

and again

TAKE THE MENAGERIE

OF MAKE-UP-TO-ONE-ANOTHER

MELANGE OF PARTIES TOGETHER

even if it don't do

or serve democracy

any good]

Rolled into the one and only one of

the rather Confucian parody

Of not knowing what they know not.

But print they must anyway

To stay in this business

of running a press

and get to call it 

freedom of expression!!!!!!!!!! 

NOT KNOWING

WHAT THEY BE NOT KNWOING

But pretending all the same

To a KNOWLEDGE CENTURY

Which hasn't made an entry

In the Registry of Arrivals

Nor made an exit in

De-part-tures

Much like the bogus voters

Who have been instantly

birthed into being

Without so much as come bearing

Their Identity

by way of a faded photo

to show

Much less by a birth mark they can show as physical evidence of their 'real' presence.

But of such stuff is democracy

Made.  That it must be promptly

Unmade. 

To take the stuffing out of

The fine feathered all-weather pillow

that  a fellow may never throw at another fellow

or throw in the towel

in the middle of the Orwel-

lian double-diction!

Which one must take down

Like dictation from the benediction

of having done some work

and earned

a state salary

as if it is coming

from unke jobe se

that they haven't pocketed away liek they pocketed away the state treasury in the fake stamp and UTI scam!

Srcam! and scramble

That

nobody may rest their restive heads on.

that down filled pillow

that must have the stuffing whipped out of

because it is as unseen

as willow the wisp.

As we must all be playing

in to being

Handmaiden

to Hanky Panky

Halo-Weaving

Without showing on telly

or tellingly knowing

what stuff

Democracy is really made of.

Nor how nobody does their duty by her. 

So are we being

 allowed to run our writings

Without writhing

AT THE unwrit TRUTH

And without incurring

any fury

From certain quarters

That hide the matter of fact

IMPACT

THAT THEY RUN THEIR MATTERS

OF STATE BEHIND

A STRICT SECURITY

gate and gamble

OF running riot with

THE CELLOTAPE ACT

THAT IS FIRMLY IN PLACE

WITHOUT THE ADDED GRACE

OF OWNING UP TO

THE sordid sad-deed

much abused debased FACT!

 that it remains and ruins intact

behind the

'IMPACT'

BUT DOES PRAVDA OF INDIA

CARE TO TAKE A BREAK

FROM PENNING PAEANS OF PRAISES TO THE POWERS THAT BE

TO GET TO THE NITT Y GRIT TY

OF REALITY?

OR IS THAT TOO SHOWING

ON REALITY TV?

UnLike Lyngdoh

who would rather admit

At the searing pain

of being at the receiving end

of a blunt injury

from a blunt instrument

of a state of perfidy

that won't admit

to the canker within

and without

that is eating up

LIKE HE SAID

THE BODY POLITIC.

LEAVING ONLY A SHROUD

OF A SHEEN

CHAMKAANCHUFYING

SURF DETERGENT WASHING

POWDER POWERED

LOUD IN WHITE

TELLING

White LIES

LYING WITHOUT

A PRESENCE

OR EVEN A PRETENCE

AT A PRESENCE

WITHIN

INDIA SHINING.

So from a bludgeoning blunt injury

to a perambulation perjury

We circumambulate around this circus

While circling around

like hungry angry citizens

creating a mega ruckus

and a maha fuss

around our humbling single bread that we must spread

all our haves and havenots on

and still we must all ply

as part of our play

at playing musical chairs

to grab our musical attention

if and when we get a chance

to grab the kursi

and turn it over

but without our murr-see!

melting in the mouth or moulting under the moult. 

Because of the

non-permissibility

To admission

TO THE very

SHRAPNEL OF TRUTH

Or to

THE very IGNORANCE

of law which hasn't been properly scripted even

In a court of law

Which finds contempt

When people

AYE!  Tell the Truth

BY!  Bravely admitting

To the ONE SUPREME KNOWLEDGE

THAT ONE DONT KNOW

BUT SURE AS SURE KNOW

WHAT ONE DONT KNOW

Which--  BY LAW OF NATURAL JUSTICE IS THE ONLY LAW MUST LIVE ON

BUT AS IT IS:

THE LAW OF CONTEMPT

THAT IS

that is really a

CONTRA-DICTION

TO THE DICTATION

OF THE DICTUM:

'SATYA MEVA JAYATE'

 WHICH IS KNOWING OR SAYING

WE CARE TWO HOOTS

FOR YOU COOTS

WHO DON'T DARE KNOCK ON OUR DOORS

TO BE ADMITTED TO THE MAJESTY OF OUR COURTS

BY TRUTH OR BY THE TRUTH OF NOT KNOWING SOMETHING ONE HAS NO NEED OF KNOWING EXCEPT THE UNASSAILABLE TRUTH THAT ONE KNOWS WHAT ONE DOES NOT KNOW WHICH IS THE TRUTH!

But the law being an ass

And grass grazing on it

At such an amazingly lazy pace

Till the grass grows tall

And all the cows come home

Or can't come home

OR CAN'T BE ALLOWED TO

Because of the majesty of laww being ever so slow

As to go and serve up

its ACE Of Spades or Of Hearts

In TIME

Without TimeOut

being put out on parole

In being clinkered in

Having

served its maximum

punishable sentence

Ten times over

and still remaining

"""""""undertrial"""""""""""""""

Awaiting the arrival

Of the Maids of

Justice and Mercy

To turn up

Eventually

To Being Blindingly

But hear-aidedly served

By their most learned M'Lords.

Which is really an anachronism

IN THIS DAY AND AGE

WHERE WE MUST SEE FARTHER

AND HEAR ALL THE BLATHER

WHAT WITH TELLY DOING A

TWENTY-FOUR BY SEVEN

AND LEAVING US ALL WITHOUT A MINUTE TO SPARE FOR OUR OWN SENSES LET ALONE SENSITIVITY to serve with regard to humanity!

so

TO SERVE UP OUR SENTENCE

WITHOUT PRETENCE

AT THE ALTAR

OF ALTERNATE DISPUTES REDRESSAL

WHICH REMINDS ME

AND BRINGS ME

THE DRESS REHEARSALS!

But before I go

Where I was headed for

at the head of the hour

I must finish this first:--

Still being stung and wrung

That is Lyngdoh

NOT IN THE KNOW

OF A LIVING POLITICIAN

WHO--  which is by now

all by the way--

had to run

a show called polls

 packed to running to

full houses

of

Circuses and ruckuses

being kicked up

by unpaid for free chopper rides

and That he had to whip into order

AT THE VERY SHORT NOTICE

Not being served in person

but by the devious trick of

a via-media

to go and prepare for a

Delivery of Desirability

In doing and delivering

at the drop of an EVM

A SNAP POLL

Without permitting time for

Dame democracy

to get into

her workday dungarees

or slash in a splash of colour

in applying a shadow of rouge

'pon her pealing

paling pallid cheeks

at the sheer cheek

in wanting polls

without taking recourse

even the ruse

of serving democracy

her much deserved salary

much less allow her the time

to collect the wages

for the time

she had served

since the founding fathers decreed

ONCE IN FIVE YEARS!

and not whenever it may catch the muse

of the poets on the loose

filling time and filing 'returns'

as and for politicians

for the refuse!!!!!!!!

who will not refuse

to say I will up and go to shamshed

like he done everytime

the huff went all apuff

like the time of the great duo 

of purushotamahas

being given their dual-sheilds

to do their battles in panoply.

But like Lyngdoh said

Serving democracy her decency

is not what they have in their heads,

But then the two silences

who are keeping their heads low

are yet to heard from

or filing in their forms.

Of fitness certificates

checked and delivered

self-certified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But then democracy has since been dead

If not being put down

By SNAP POLLS

Which keeps

SNAPPING

and calling to heel

and heed

the call for a snap poll

at the snap of a finger

which cannot be done

by one finger anyway

like one hand clapping---

to come snapping

AT THE CUFFS

of the election commissions PANTS

BY PANTING POLITICIANS

Who want to run

Their three-legged races

Without keeping paces

To be with and let democracy

To keep catching up!

with their urges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With their brazen harrumphs

and hiccoughs of triumphalist revivalist urgentistitis

doing in their constitutions!!!!!!!!!!

or lack of constitution

in taking their morning constitutional and showing up decently at the five yearlys.

WHO WANT TO HAVE IT

LIKE NOW

IF NOT YESTERDAY

SO THEY MAY RETURN

TO RULE in the very same way

AND LET US all to collectively

RUE it for one and yet

ANOTHER DAY.

SO HE

That is Lyngdoh

BRAVELY and openly ADMITTEDLY being

NOT IN THE KNOW

OF A LIVING POLITICIAN

WHO- which anyway

is by now Folklore--

LET LOOSE

TO FLY LIKE A FIST

Of a--, oh well, 

don't you get my gist?

That he is sharp

As an Eramus

As in a razor-blade

in no doubt.

that he is not

And never been into

harping and carping

As an Ignoramus

As is being made out

by the mass media being

set up as barkdogs by the deities of the day

To go be

pretending to be

democracy's chowkidar

or a real brick mebbe

but

now a HAS BEEN

by now

in a jaded fade--

out of at the tailend

of his services from

his high offices

who must be shown his place

on the servility chain!!!!!!!!!!!!!

served up by the conveyer belt

belting it out in public

by Pravdas of Indias

feigning to be

free presses

who deserve their press passes

that does not pass muster

at the entry gate

of 

THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

BECAUSE ALL THEY ARE DOING

IS TAKING DOWN DICTATION!!!! 

On the sheer truculent

trumped up charges

Of being in possession

of an

ARROGANCE OF IGNORANCE

Rather than owning up

To the sheering Troth

IN an enduring

Innocence in his Ignorance

when he quoth

and has been and was

ever so often

deridingly quoted

as having knowledge of a 

single living [which is rather understated by him because the rest of us real ignoramuses admit to not knowing anyone of the said breed either this side or that side of BREATH LIVING OR DYING BY ANY BREADTH OR DEPTH OF REALITY OR IMAGINATION]

AND HAS

admitted to an

Ignorance

in Knowledge

[and that too in this century

when Knowledge makes

a Hub of Bubble

of its stunning presence

felt,  and that too in

the sheer absence

of a sterling genius

anywhere without

or within

INDIA SHINING!]

Ignorance as in

KNOWING

OR

BEING IN THE KNOW

Of a Living Politician

who stood by

and delivered

his duty to

DAME DEMOCRACY.

And since Confucius

is too much

Of a Chinese Puzzle

For our chin-ease Lantern

Lectern leaning lazybones

Who make no bones about

How they must lean

forwards and backwards

To earn their advertising revenues

From the wrongly appropriated

 State-tijoris

To run their adverts to make

'IMPACT'

LIKE GEHLOT WAS THE BEST CM

AND STILL LOST

SO COME AGAIN?

WHO YOU GUYS KIDDING

CERTAINLY NOT THE ADVERT

IMPACT

DEPARTMENTS

WHO DO THEIR COOKING

IN BOOKS THAT DON'T SELL

AS FICTIONS!

nOR FACTOIDS!

So while all such FACTS

ARE PROMPTLY

AND PRIMLY HIDDEN

BEHIND THE DRESSED-UP

AND TRUSSED-UP

CHICKEN[Iron]ING OUT

wrinkle of TRUTH

IN THE TROTH

OF THE WRATH

In being sent out

With pith-y pens being pushed

to be going about

TEACHING LYNGDOH

A REAL LESSON

IN SERVILITY

WITH NO SERVICE

BEING SERVED

IN HUMILITY

Being admitted

TOWARD showing

REAL HUMANEITY

Or give a walk in interlude

to play

To a Vote of Welcome.

Much less a Vote of Thanks

being delivered however late in the day

For a job well done!

In having been so fair

as in not allowing

Into being pulled into

Complying

To the panoply

of nasty tricks politicks

pulling rank

To turn in a Rigged-Veda

From a Ji-Veda

Ya-Huzoor Veda!

By shoring up

a poll that stank

To the high heavens

or is it permitted?

NOW

THAT WE HAVE PASSED

SO MUCH SCRUTITY

BY THE REAL IMPERIAS

for it to be invited

to be seated and sated

at the high table

to which all rounded up

third worlded nations

Must pay much obeisance to

By showing them how

we run our democracy!!!!!

Hear!!! Hear!!!!

And it is really thanks

to the triumvirate

of him and his sorts

Krishnamurthy and Tandon

And the rest of the best

Of equally industrious

and shiningly illustrious

behind the scenes working

diligently with discipline

in serving with due sauces

and delivering Democracy

to her due

Sources

Which are the peoples

Who deserve her best

And don't de-serve her

Like all these politicians

Who are all spotlessly

shining

In surf washed powders

Powered by

Dhoondthe rah javoge jingles

Walking upon their cold shingles!

Giving them

such tingles!!!!!!!!!!!

So it is them

that's wot done it

at the Election Commission

who done a decent job

in Kashmir

without doing democracy in--

to be followed on

all the way down

to Kanyakumari

and taking it from

Bhuj and Kutch

to Guwahati's Kamakhya Devi

That today

the higher uppities

Are being feted and feasted

and fated to be seated

Across the globe

as true advocates

Of peace and democracy.

WHICH IS SUCH A such

SORDID IRONY 

WHEN THEY DUNNE NOTHING

TO DESERVE ANY SUCH PLAUDITS

WHEN THEY havin

GONE AND DONE

DEATH TO DEMOCRACY

AND DECENCY

BY BANISHING THE PANDITS

FROM THEIR HOMESTEADS

INSTEADS.

And done nothing since

Nor learnt any new lessons

When they gone and done

The same with riotous abandon

From Godhra to Gandhi-Nagar!

That brings us to

the centre of the then

this pitch

From where we deviated

IN THE FIRST PLACE

Which grabbed our attention

IN THE FIRST PLACE

Which is the sheer lack of grace

In deviating from the race.

Which is really not rule bound

to be coming round

Till Come September

But Septagerians

count their minutes differently

and in a worry-beaded

and rose-early hurry.

And yet don't want

to be called

OLD MEN IN A HURRY

AS SON OF THE SOIL

DEVE GOWDE

WAS ONCE SO

DERIDINGLY CALLED

BUT THEN, 

HE NEVER DID MAKE

SUCH A RUMPUS

ALL OVER

THE EMPTIED CAMPUS

ABOUT SHOWING OBEISANCE

AT THE FEAT OF POLITICIANS!!!

and stood up

by Lyngdoh to say

he must stay true to his credo

and not be interdicted

on how he must mind his lingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to please the politicians.

nOR has a government before this ruin-burrow coalition stepped in

to drift down the dirty waters of dirtied democracy

on a rafting without a rift

water washing rafting

ever

GOTTEN INTO

RUNNING RIOT

WITH RUNNING

THE CELLOTAPE ACT!

ROUND THE entire COUNTRY

BEING ROUNDED UP

FOR A SNAP POLL

POPPING OUT

OF THE POPCORN

CON-NY OPINION POLL

REQUESTED IN A 'QUEST'

FOR A RETURN RUN

OF THE SAME SON

OF-A-PEACE-GUN!

Which that is

opinion polls

are no doubt being

Filled in as requested

In the spreadsheets

Of the Poll-Stirs!

So we live in an

Mad mad ad world

That this lot insists

on us doing our believing in

with all this low level lying

Without it showing
ON the Show

that's showing off

In

INDIA SHINING!!!!

 run through

the cellotape act

encircling the real fact

around the entire lay of the land.

Still back to where we began

It was to have been

UP FOR GRABS

BY

THE INDIAN CRABS

On show

But it was

A NO SHOW

Because they like their

Counter-Parts

Have gone off

ON DRESS REHEARSALS!

But since there is no time

For even fillers to be slotted

Into the front of the no shows

Who have scant regard for

Time Timing and Time-Keeping

We as Keepers of Our Own Consciences

in all Humaneity

Must pay attention

To how we are being

SUCKERED

INTO TAKING OFF

ON A BACK-PACKING HIKE

WHILE

BEHIND OUR BACK

BEHIND THE SCENES

BACK-PATTING

PARTY-PATTI MAKING

BACK-TO-BACK

ELECTIONEERING

LETS-GET-BACK

PACKING AND PACKAGING

DEAL-STRIKING IS GOING ON

AS THEY GO TAKING

DEMOCRACY INTO CUSTODY

BY RIDING A STUNNING PARODY

BY HIRING RING-SIDE

SHOWS

OF

INDIA SHINING

TO DIVERT OUR ATTENTIONS

FROM THE REALITY OF THE BUMPY AND BAD RIDES

WE ARE BEING MADE TO RIDE

SIDE-SADDLE

AND SADDLED WITH

 THE ADDITIONAL BURDEN

OF THE CELLOTAPE ACT

PLAYING WARDEN

SO

WATCH IT!