The Library Man Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

He had been a Matriculate, and after that did he somehow his I.A. privately,
Clearing forth his B.A. first, later on M.A.
And now after his M.Phil.,
Calls he a commissioned librarian,
A Public Relations Officer, a Public Information Officer.

Says he, my status is so and so, I am no less than,
Just after doing his simple pass course, one year B.Lis., two-year M.Lis. and M.Phil.
That he is no less than,
A professor of Lib.Sc. yet to be appointed.

I just want to ask, how many good students take to Lib.Sc,
Barring the loop line fellows,
And the U.G.C. too selects from the fewer candidates
And when was Lib.Sc. a science
And who does not know book-keeping and library maintenance?

If he had been really a good boy,
Why did he not join after doing his M.Lis. and M.Phil.,
But the reality is this that
He is a clerk, an office staffer
And if this be, he is an officer,
Then the college accountant too is a finance officer,
Am I in the wrong?

To serve the people, to help them in giving information
Should have been their motto,
But instead of, calling themselves officers,
And if all call themselves officers,
Then who will like to work?

Similar is the case with Physical Education teachers,
The junior engineers, I mean the overseers,
The demonstrators calling themselves big professors
And in course of time one becomes, one naturally gets it,
But one should forget one’s beginning,
As is the case with the D.M.’s P.A. and steno.

I just pray to God to save me from as such postings and placements
In which there is some smell of ego,
Though I too have weaknesses
And as a man, these are bound to be a man
And I cannot be an exception to that.