work is life …life is work

 

the farmer who gets up before the sun is on

and comes back way  after the sun is down..

 

the mexican workers that see through the window

struggling down the scaffolds after sun went down

 

a Kerala boy I know  who came with dollars,.. may be seven

worked from eighteen to sixty six seven to seven

 

work is tonic for mind and brain… in smelly hospitals or dirty keypads

melts  your food , puts you to sleep  with no scary dreams

 

keeps dirty thoughts away like robbing a bank

or getting drunk to keep the rank

 

look at Jimmy building houses at 86

and kids on MLK breaking houses at 26

 

lets get rid of AC , pasturised milk and clorined water

sweat our glands to squeese out  salt and wawa

 

there is plenty of time in life to do the talk

if we didn’t care about too much about when to talk

SK Asokan 

May 23, 2008