The
Half-Family
Three sons and a daughter,
Drunken father and carefree mother
All of them half-insane, half-naïve,
half-a-family
Most of them smoked with the head so
insane
Seen always loitering around is the
elder,
Second sat on the wall, half dead,
Humpty and dumpty, being high on
weed,
Younger sold cooling glasses, caps,
hats and helmets,
Most of them he claimed are farin
(foreign)
Emported (imported) from America and
Deli (Delhi)
Sometimes seen smoking pot with
brothers
Girl doubles insane seen defecating
in the high places,
Wore scanty dress, threw food at
passerby,
Always spat, cursed, winked,
signaled, flying kissed,
Enacted few heroine dialogues and
dances.
Father a food machine, mother a cook
machine,
Stayed in a unhygienic place,
Garbage around, shabby here dusty
there, sewage share,
This is the place they always
stayed, slept and cooked,
No proper roof, no proper proof, no
proper ground,
Once on a day there came a rain so
heavy a rain,
Swept all their things, clothes,
grain and same
The sun came the next dried all
their shame
Cold came again skinned all their
game,
None came their gain, they went
nowhere,
Hope they denied, not found in their
books,
No help came there, continued they
in all their fate
Political, philosopher, philanthropy
surprise subtract,
Humility hostility misery and
melancholy did multiply,
Added the woes, sorrow, poverty to
all their heirs,
This is the way half-family lay,
this is the way divided the day.
Three sons and a daughter,
Drunken father and carefree mother
All of them half-insane, half-naïve,
half-a-family
Most of them smoked with the head so
insane
Seen always loitering around is the
elder,
Second sat on the wall, half dead,
Humpty and dumpty, being high on
weed,
Younger sold cooling glasses, caps,
hats and helmets,
Most of them he claimed are farin
(foreign)
Emported (imported) from America and
Deli (Delhi)
Sometimes seen smoking pot with
brothers
Girl doubles insane seen urinates,
defecates,
Wore scanty dress, threw food at
passerby,
Always spat, cursed, winked,
signaled, flying kissed,
Enact few heroine dialogues and
dances.
Father always in search for a
metaphor,
A cursed food machine, mother a cook
machine,
Stayed in a unhygienic place,
Garbage around, shabby here dusty
there, sewage share,
This is the place they always
stayed, slept and cooked,
No proper roof, no proper proof, no
proper ground,
Once on a day there came a rain so
heavy a rain,
Swept all their things, clothes,
grain and same
The sun came the next dried all
their shame
Cold came again skinned all their
game,
None came their gain, they went
insane,
Hope they denied, not found in their
books,
No help came there, continued they
in all their fate
Political, philosopher, philanthropy
surprise subtract,
Humility hostility misery and
melancholy did multiply,
Added the woes, sorrow, poverty to
all their heirs,
This is the way half-family lay,
this is the way divided the day.
