Wednesday 27 October 2010

Another random poem...

...about the free food production at the Golden Temple, Amritsar...

How To Feed Ten Thousand Mouths

Here's a plate,
Here's a bowl,
Here's a spoon,
Upstairs shuffle, shuffle, shuffle,
In this door,
On those mats,
Here's your spot,
Sit.
Pour cold water,
Chappatti, chappatti,
TWO HANDS OUT!
Drop.
Dollop of lentils,
Dollop of beans,
Dollop of rice,
Rip the chappatti,
Pincer the curry,
Rice scoop, scoop, scoop,
More chappatti,
More lentils,
More rice, more rice,
Rip rip, pincer, pincer, scoop, scoop,
Done.
Up you stand,
Out that door,
Downstairs shuffle, shuffle, shuffle,
Drop your spoon,
Pass your plate,
Let them grab, dunk, throw,
Into the trolley,
Wheel them over,
To start over,
Here's another-
Here's a plate,
Here's a bowl,
Here's a spoon,
Over and over,
Twenty four hours,
Ten thousand mouths
Fed.

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