The Khada Parsi

Shet Cursetjee Manockjee

The standing tall

Khada parsi

A punishment

Given to him

By his community

The ill-fated good parsi

Belching smoke

Asthamatic retribution

And life

On the fast track changing

He is forced to see

Pigeon shit on his head

Fornication at his feet

Clothes put out to dry

Blotches of arthritis

On his knees

Cannot change the detstiny

Of the khada parsi

The only second hand item

That looks it does not belong

To a parsi

Every time I pass him

I take his pictures

To capture the moods

And the variations

Of the city

Through the eyes

of the khada parsi

riots , rains , feasts

life deaths .. the cycle

of change ,,

does not change the after death

of a living death

each new day

of the khada parsi

the parsi panchayat

money bags

had done free f***k all

for the survival of

a citys national figure

aapra lokhandna

khada parsi

 

dedicated to mansoor bhai showgi

 

Done