APPA

WHEN   Palghat   uncle   came   home 
with   a   towel   in   his   armpit ,  Appa   said,
"come  in,  sit  down. You   see  these   days
I   am   very   busy,   I   take   two   buses   to   the   city,''
Then   Appa   said,  ''when Ambazhapuzha  uncle   comes   he   brings
  us   pedas,   jack   fruit,   plantains."
Appa   is   like   that  - simple,   straight  forward
                                 
Four   years   ago   Appa   built   a   house.
He   said, " You   see   I   am   a   man,
so   I can  stand   on   the   sun   and   supervise"
                              
Mother   told   him, "don't   forget   to   put
 concrete   rings   for   the    well"
Appa   said, "O.K. O.K.',   and  took   a   nap,   and   now
Oh!  how   well  our   well  overflows.

Last   week   we   all   went   to   Swaminathan's
To    view   his   daughter  for bride.
Swaminathan  said  "I am I.A.S., also big  Tamil  poet",                        
So   Appa   got   very   nervous.
He    started    playing    crab
With   somebody's    false  hair  lying  on   the chair.

We   all   tried    to   catch    his   eye
But   nothing    could   make     him    put    it   down.
                        
Appa    had   already  bungled.
Appa  is  like that  simple,  shy and   masculine.

SIVAKAMI  RAMANATHAN      
Youth Times  Sep. 1-14,1978






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