Addressing To An Advertising Girl Poem by Pallab Chaudhury

'When I'd have enough money in my pocket? '
-You were impatient - looking to that;
So, you became an easy-target
And got captured in their digital camera.
The sweated and massive- muscles of mine
Surprised, on glancing your shining face
On the TV Screen!
Oh, Excellent! … Keeping a lesson
How to eat, drink and be merry…
…. A short term contract
Still you say- It's fantastic!

It's very hard time now-a-days…
And getting a little tiger's milk is
Rather easier than getting a job!
You don't know the market has been sloth
Before the countryman had something
In their hand to effort.
So, I doubt how long the craze
Of your advertisement will last!

…you didn't even try to understand me;
So, I often become sad to see you on screen…
Your dreams… Your works...frown…
How many… I don't know….
Likewise me- furtively!

Translated: 6th July 2019.