A TRANS- AFFAIR

 BENOY P J

Something had to be done soon

The currency was running out

All the trans-actions in the Banks

Seemed to be banned

And on the banks of river Thames

Shame had been made constitutional

And customary

The costumes were piling up

And nudity had not yet been sighted

A Leviathan, no doubt.

Ku Klux clan found it abominable

That love be permitted

And has asked for submissions from everybody

Project sev-usal saves

All men from distress.

But the women no doubt have taken to the streets

Easily earning the full sky

Because the sky was never halved!

Cum-se- cum ek karore log

Seem to have come out

With a few every hour waiting in the banks!

And Transylvania has been taken over

By the moonlight and a gypsy crowd

Django playing out to a world on its feet

Turning gypsy every night

The birds call out from terraces and the forts

And the jail window jali’s are fixed in the wells

Nobody asks you to ‘step- well’ anymore

And the eclipse of the Queen

Is no more in the news!

The transport is a busy port now, with many portels and portals,

No doubt!

And trains are in a trance with an eye or I,

With enough problems for spell –checking

Everything is trans figured

And the cats mew their pleasure

And munch at the rats

The pigeon is easy with its flight

Parrots sing their own songs without parroting, as they say

Peacocks crowing and dancing

In a crowd

A bul-bul sings its due to the world

Green bee- eaters

Leaving the line on every bank

And love is in currency now

Since the fighting ends, and a change has come!

Bali takes credit for his great sacrifice,

So does mother Meenakshi, or Baali

And Raven’s flight is not delayed

Sita takes to Baali or Bali

Having crossed the border

In a trance.

Maara returned when Rama had gone

Finding a place for himself in every abode

The sirens were no more sounding dangerous

Witches and bitches no more faring bad

And gay was the world

Like the birds of the sky

Clouds kissed openly,

Gods embraced

And the morning opened to an orgiastic light

There is heavy trafficking on the net

And standing trans- fixed was the sun

A new one there!