Why is the tantrica going in search of
With the black cow, the black bitch and the black cat
Or together with them?
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I am myself mad
And I shall make you too mad
If keep you my company
As my madness
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He speaks, behaves and delivers the talk in such a way
That you won’t believe it
That he is a man speaking to a man,
A gift of the gab,
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Call her not a debt or a burden,
She is but a gift of the replica of Lakshmi
By God.
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They say it that he is a criminal,
But I find it not the truth in their statement
Implicating him pathetically,
A poor fellow he is.
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Drunkard sahib, you not less than an officer
As the red face of yours shows
It to be,
That you a son of a good father
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Bhangedi sahib,
Having taken bhang,
Says he that he has Shivaji’s buti,
A herbal paste
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There was a time
When I used to live
With my mother, father and aunt
And brothers and sisters,
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How blessed am I
After finding the statue
Of Radha and Krishna
Blackly,
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They are the Bamiyan Buddhas,
The Buddhas of Peace,
You fire not on them
With mortars and shells.
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