1. SALUTING THE STREET DOGS .
You unsparingly reprimanded them when they ferociously barked – mischievously
chased other damsels of their fraternity and indulged in the most uncivilized of fights,
You lambasted them – instantaneously unbuckling your waist belts - for chasing your
car down the quiet highway; annoyed that its flamboyant splendor was marred by the
unscrupulous behavior,
You ; at occasions ; drove at breakneck speeds – thrusting the reason to be an
emergency – and mowed through their peaceful abodes which were haphazardly
strewn across the orphaned road,
You hurled stones randomly on their innocuous bodies – on the spurious pretexts of
them being besmirched with dirt and debris from the gutters – and intruding the
spotless environs around you with their hapless demeanor,
You incorrigibly refused to touch them or any part of their body even an insouciant
iota – scientifically quoting the fact that this could lead to rabies and a host of
unceremonious disease – with statesmanly like pride,
You sprayed the most opulent of your perfume in the air if they trespassed your
house walls uninvited – terming the stench that thereby emanated as abhorrently
unbearable – though you yourself hadn’t taken a bath since many days ,
You had the best laugh of your life as they traumatically wailed on the pavement
beside you – sadistically consoling yourself of emphatic victory for the day – though
the boss had just nonchalantly fired you ,
You took excruciating effort to find the contact details of those government vans
who could uncouthly pick them up from your locality – complaining against the dirt ;
disease ; unhygienic conditions ; and waste that they spread – and surprisingly this
was the only matter you found worthy in your existence to rebel,
You side-lined them as the lowest strata of the society – an irascible menace to every
religion existing under the Sun ; barbarically shutting the doors on their mouth - even
as you rejoiced and celebrated bounteous opportunities of survival,
You took potshots at them with your freshly purchased air-gun – placing apples and
other nondescriptly sized objects on their heads – as this placed you in a princely
pedestal ; not ever mustering the courage to sit a real throne,
You horrendously spat at them – saliva which at instances was laced with obnoxious
2. chewing gum ; tobacco ; discarded food and pernicious tooth prick – as this made
you feel seated behind the luxurious wheel of the limousine – though you were
currently driving the laborious bicycle,
You used their name as a vindictively hurled expletive – lividly abusing your
colleagues with the same – as how to react alternatively and express your emotions
never crossed your prejudiced thought,
You took their photographs not to sympathize or flatter – but depict the abysmal
state of poverty in your country that could go ahead and win an Oscar – and also
because they were earnestly happy to oblige ,
You snatched the succulently tantalizing meals they received sporadically from
philanthropists – wisely declaring that these didn’t befit them – when the abject
reality was that the hole in your own plate had just gotten a trifle bigger,
You mercilessly beat them with approximately the same sized and complexioned stick
that your counterpart had hit you with – for here there was not the tiniest of reprisal
as you flaunted your non-existent bravado – and yet you felt you’d had your revenge,
You ferociously kicked them left, right and center as you walked the muddy trail – as
if they were barricades of loose sand that hampered your path – at the same instant
also giving you an opportunity to demonstrate your powerless might,
You bizarrely held their impeccable new born kids by their feet upside down – to
worthlessly demonstrate how helpless they were in this gargantuan world – whereas
God was ; is and shall be ; the ultimate master and invincible decision maker of his
entire planet ,
You brutally sold them to unsuspecting foreigners who presumed they were yours –
as you artificially cuddled them in your lap – to earn that indispensable currency coin
and consume that quintessential meal to survive ,
Yet . And ironically . You ; still salute these ‘Street dogs’ whom you pugnaciously
abandoned and hideously punched – as they guarded you in their own inimitable
natural capacity in the thick of the blackened night – and then their discordant growl
was the sweetest sound to your ears ; as you knew their mortal forms were there to
protect you – even as the thieves crept .
