May like to see the parody of Robert Frost's ‘Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening’. It is in HT in Khushwant Singh's column today and makes good reading.
Whose jobs are these, don't want to know
Paid heavily each month without fail though;
Boss hasn't time for looking here,
To see on the files the dust grow.
My ballpoint pen may think it queer,
To start without an envelope near;
Between the nods and a handshake
The file progresses in minutes mere.
Boss gives his head a vigorous shake
To ask if there is any mistake;
Some part of my earnings he does reap,
We all have and eat our cake.
The chair is cosy and files in heap
But I have a family to keep;
And hours to sleep before the nation's leap
And hours to sleep before the nation's leap.
(courtsey : Ashutosh Jindal)
1 comment:
"Boss gives his head a vigorous shake
To ask if there is any mistake;
Some part of my earnings he does reap"
That was most enjoyable, Mr. Singh. It is refreshing to find "normal" bureaucratic disinclination in the mundane plates of the hungry :)
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