Chapter 3

If banks were nationalised; Employees have them privatised!

The abundance of redtapism Does not check rampant nepotism!

Enforcers are benefited By all laws that are enacted.

COCKTAIL

Liquor may be good vasodilator, But, once within, it is a dictator!

Why dilute liquor before it is consumed? Because it is all evils concentrated!

If party ends with "one for the road", Could be party's end on the road?

Liquors are meant to give you a kick, You drunk, let not others get the kick!

One is pep, two is pick, Three is tope, four is kick

PROFESSION

Government servants are employed to tell one Why they cannot do what he wants to get done!

Banker is one who sees pounds of flesh in man But fails to notice the blood that streams within!

Instead of winning the common man's trust Banker's interest is in interest!

Trade unionist is one who incites labour unrest And settles it at the cost of Labour and management!

Court is good to conduct sports But not to settle disputes!

Advocate is he who takes a quarrel to court And conducts it until the client becomes bankrupt!

Doctor is a person who fights a disease And conquers it even if patient dies!

Accountant is trained to do a balancing trick, Lifting the pane of profit counterweighed by black!

Businessman is busy scooping profits to prosper, With other's money, while his own idling in coffer!

Actors are paid to depict different person Of the self, with fan and fare, one the stage or screen.

Insurance agent is a pessimist Who fears his clients will face a holocaust!

Classical musician is a hoarse voiced vocalist Deals with tunes in detail ignoring meaningful text!

Architects design castles smooching the sky Which someone builds and some other occupy.

Roll out a rumour, public will carry it; Float a company, public will finance it!

By public issue companies make money; Once issued, it's public make all the money!

When companies do manage to issue, There come many managers to issue!

Pop is a branch of music founded in the West, Practiced by the hysteric exhibitionist!

The Novelist narrates a short story In voluminous book, like history!

Fashion model is a sex symbol, Dressed up to deem undressed overall!

Salesman is who sell An ass as a horse!

Medical salesmen teach doctor How drugs to administer!

A TV serial producer is an entity Capable of stretching a plot to eternity!

Hotelier is playing host Entertains paying guest!

ADIEU

I'm here to do only good To all my neighbourhood!

I may go, one day, behind the thick veil of death; In these lines, I shall live forever on this earth.

BLURB

This is not a book of poetry, not a didactic literature.

The idiosyncrasies of the Heavenly Father and the earthlings, you and me included, are exposed, with a tinge of sarcasm.

If you don't like any of the sharp, straight and sour quips it is certainly unpalatable for me too, but it is a fact we have to reconcile with.

I have no enmity with anyone who feels targeted and hurt by these couplets; for I know, I myself am the bull's eye!

We should point our index finger against each other; for none is perfect and invulnerable to mistakes or resistant to allurement to eat the forbidden fruit.

Come, have a fiesta, laughing and staring at and pitying and ridiculing us!

A.R. Narayanan.