The School Bag of Misfortune

The School Bag of Misfortune, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

her mother
carried it once
her father
carried it too
a school bag
of misfortune
it is true from
one generation
to the next
as it overgrew
an education
system based
on carrying
boulders
in the bag
as knowledge
wisdom
on view
from the
frying pan
into the stew
through
a picture
i give the school
bag
its unending due


gibberish poetry
a new genre
slamming
the soul
of a guruvayur
trichur
mallu
a tower
of babel
of pedantic
prose
in the
process
of being built
on the soul
of humanity
fell
through
dead
poets
authors
squirming
in their
graves too