Not everyone is bothered about seats
There are those who want more memes
Or must know the increase in fringe beats.
Losers would count malignant dreams.
How many is more than just a chant
That will dominate telly screens today
Some will cry and others will rant
But numbers will have the final say.
EVMs and VVPATS in strategic games
Played by those who love math of power
Countless claims and counter claims
Will pour in a tireless WhatsApp shower.
Look beyond politics and you might see
A child counting rice grains on his plate
Distraught statisticians looking for the key
To rising numbers in rapes attributed to fate.
Here where poverty, suicides, and gang wars
Are conquered only in films & cheap thrillers
We will spend an entire day with lusty lores
Of an activity that is, at best, fit only for fillers.
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Arvind Passey
23 May 2019
