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I Give you the bullet train

By Badri Raina. Dated: 9/17/2017 11:51:27 PM

Are you hungry, are you in pain?
Come, I'll feed you the bullet train.
Have you no roof ov'r your head?
Are you directly under the rain?
Come, jump into the bullet train.
Are you on foot, pursued apace
By rapist, moralist, policeman's cane?
Just one way to cheat them all-
Ride away in the bullet train.
The bullet train is quick and fast,
It leaves behind the ugly things
In such rapid tryst with development,
You'd think they never did exist.
Are you a farmer with noose in hand,
About to end your endless pain,
Consider a patriotic move-
Go under the bullet train
Big Brother, Aadhaar
Aadhaar has my fingertips,
Aadhaar has my iris;
If I have no Aadhar
I am merely ultra vires.
Aadhaar keeps me benignly safe
From dangerous privacy;
Aadhaar maps my radical brain
To safeguard GST.
Aadhaar prevents me doing harm
And mischief to the state;
Aadhaar tethers me squarely
To the Leader beyond debate.
Henceforth my name is Aadhaar
The rest of me is lumber;
Henceforth all my confusions end
In one magical number.