Hundredweight! Poem by nimal dunuhinga

['When one door of happiness closes another opens; but, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.']-Helen Keller


Doctor asked; 'Are you taking a balanced diet? '
I said; 'No Sir! I eat much starch and drink a gallon of water
to subside the appetite, and I am burning these days
as they terminated my free health insurance? '
(They believe my total earnings go beyond to their standard)
I read in a paper a measure of weight.112 lb(50.802 Kg.) or in America
110 lb (45.359 Kg): a metric unit of weight equal to 50 Kg.
Really I am very poor of calculating by means of numbers and
I think of my beautiful Arithmetic teacher
a mole on her cheek,
Her long hair touched the shapely buttocks?
I am an old man bald headed now
just a blotting paper
absorbs the cheap alcohol
to cleanse my cerulean soul!


to our friendly poet T.A.Ramesh with gratitude!


nimal p.dunuhinga