selfish pompousness

selfish pompousness
a gaze into morrow

Monday, February 2, 2009

translation of the poem-schoolilay aana-by mohanakrishanan kalati

school elephant
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school closed for the day.
while walking through the classrooms,
pinching the ears of
disobediant windows,
knocking on the heads of
idiot doors,
sankarettan,the peon,
got the umbrella of sureshkumar,
the tiffin carrier of savithri,
(the specs of muhammedkutty,
but didn't take.)
the snuff of maravimash
and by chance
there,on the blackboard of 3 A,
mwt an elephant,
tha has been forgotten to rub off.

'what to do with the elephant!'
sankarettan,in a dilemma,
sat on the front bench.
the elephant said:
"i am from the forest.
drifting in the rain water
along the river
i've come to school,
when i saw one.
the drawing teacher
chained me up."
the tusker went on:
i can get on well at school
and school can be watched always
i can drink the mid-day gruel
i can take the giddi kiddies
to their parents there at home,
while they fall in dizzy spells."

now or then,
i don't know when
sankarettan was fallen asleep.

next day,
during rounds of inspection,
what our A E O found was that
a trampled garden of school benches.

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