Cleaning Rituals Of Clever Men Poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi

Even before the discovery of wash lets,
from the land of rising sun in the east,
Even before the invention of washrooms,
from the land of congested petty nations,
Even before the construction of squatting,
holes and the adjacent storage compartments,
There were people who discharged in the buckets,
in the palace of Buckingham.
Workers collected one pound for a bucket,
Masters sprayed the new perfume distilled.

Ladies of London had taken their clothes,
to wash in the streams and rivers,
across the town a century ago,
that the people,
from the kampung of Indonesia do
until today.
Village ladies from India,
take the sombhu early morning,
to empty their bowels before sun rise.
Village ladies from India,
go to the kulam to bathe and clean,
while their men bathe on the other side.
None ravish none,
as they have no sin.

Presence of pimps,
is the sign for poverty.
Is License to prostitute,
the sign of prosperity?
Women have this license,
and they have to renew it yearly,
in a few European countries.
Men are very clever,
to perfumed the smelling palace.
Men are very clever,
to change a woman to a whore,
on their own,
and this need is created,
by the men and for the men.
Fools are us, we, women.





Kampung is a Malay word for village.
Sombhu is water pitcher in Tamil.
Kulam means pond in Tamil