{"id":26105,"date":"2016-01-29T22:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26105"},"modified":"2016-01-29T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:14:58","slug":"ramachandran-just-one-elephant-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/ramachandran-just-one-elephant-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramachandran just one elephant &#8216;s thoughts in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Existence in an immortal sense<br \/>\nwe feel its  latent power<br \/>\nWhat is their vast nirvana<br \/>\nA visionary of each hour<br \/>\nAn intimate regard for life<br \/>\nEach opportunity<br \/>\nTo interconnect<br \/>\nTo reciprocate<br \/>\nAnd do so mutually<\/p>\n<p>Its perhaps the human<br \/>\nContrariness theres no antidote<br \/>\nOut there<br \/>\nIts full of inconsistencies<br \/>\nAnd chaos and despair<br \/>\nUnevenness and diversity<br \/>\nChangeful in the extreme<br \/>\nNo semblance of a true response<br \/>\nSo nothing to redeem<\/p>\n<p>The Pachyderms responses<br \/>\nAre hard to quantify<br \/>\nA quantum leap into our dark<br \/>\nIn a blink of their eye<br \/>\nThe disparate regard to size<br \/>\nTo the greatness of their scale<br \/>\nTo the magnification that does exist<br \/>\nIf literally all does fail<\/p>\n<p>They are mountains on four legs<br \/>\nIn fact<br \/>\nAstride perhaps our stream<br \/>\nAn imperial example<br \/>\nPart of nan amazing team<br \/>\nUncontrollably desiring<br \/>\nOf a peaceful place beyond<br \/>\nThe pageant and the mayhem<br \/>\nIf asked to respond<\/p>\n<p>An inner peace is prevalent<br \/>\nTo a swarming human crowd<br \/>\nWith ligatures and massive chains<br \/>\nA yoke thats overpowered<br \/>\nAs violence raises all our heads<br \/>\nAnd a whirlwind of a thought<br \/>\nBrings back a sudden memory<br \/>\nA derangement that had caught<\/p>\n<p>Of bygone beatings bull hook rants<br \/>\nOf expletives by the score<br \/>\nOf arthritic legs worked over<br \/>\nFrom the maggots of Lahore<br \/>\nOf Kerala&#8217;s vile mahouts<br \/>\nOn drunken raids of sin<br \/>\nWho beat into their bodies<br \/>\nAnd tore frantically through their skin<br \/>\nSores became apparent festering and pain<br \/>\nPrecursors of long feverish months<br \/>\nSpent painfully in the rain<\/p>\n<p>The torment the conditioning<br \/>\nThe frightful bouts of fear<br \/>\nThe bullying the casualties<br \/>\nThat all become more clear<br \/>\nThe repetitiveness of daily chores<br \/>\nThe monotony of mass<br \/>\nUnfathomable behaviour<br \/>\nA kind of sordid gas<\/p>\n<p>That chokes them in seclusion<br \/>\nAnd is forever there<br \/>\nLike the bogeyman just waiting<br \/>\nTo tear out lumps of hair<br \/>\nTo threaten your existence<br \/>\nYour eventuality<br \/>\nTo stir your inner feelings<br \/>\nAnd your destiny<\/p>\n<p>A kind of inspiration<br \/>\nA cause we would have to say<br \/>\nPivotal in a change of heart<br \/>\nYour chance to run away<br \/>\nTo break the ties that bind you<br \/>\nAnd exert the strength you hold<br \/>\nThe vigorousness you manifest<br \/>\nAnd the tension that is rolled<br \/>\nUp in one great mighty surge<br \/>\nTo take back what is yours<br \/>\nTo trample on those mahouts<br \/>\nFor in essence they were the cause<\/p>\n<p>They just got over confident<br \/>\nTheir arrogance away<br \/>\nWith all the foreign fairies<br \/>\nThat dance their night away<br \/>\nThey bull hooked you too many times<br \/>\nThey energised your stress<br \/>\nThey over did their beatings<br \/>\nAnd never could confess <\/p>\n<p>They sabotaged their chances<br \/>\nTheir downfall was their own<br \/>\nThey reached into catastrophe<br \/>\nWith those bad seeds they had sown<br \/>\nSubverting all our trust in them<br \/>\nAnd allowing us to be<br \/>\nRising like  a tempest<br \/>\nTo be unbelievably<\/p>\n<p>Out if it beyond the pale<br \/>\nCarrying such weight<br \/>\nThe straw that broke the camels back<br \/>\nHas broken ours our fate<br \/>\nIndian processions<br \/>\nAll drums and pipes and more<br \/>\nThe over exited people<br \/>\nLike armies from before<br \/>\nThe drapes and silks and roughness<br \/>\nThat is strapped around us, we<br \/>\nCan crack it all comes back<br \/>\nAnd we run remarkably<\/p>\n<p>Out to kill Those mahouts<br \/>\nEach mouse like ragged doll<br \/>\nWho from behind can blow our mind<br \/>\nWith a bull hook through our soul<br \/>\nShake those bloody riders off<br \/>\nCrush their miserable bones<br \/>\nToss them through oblivion<br \/>\nAnd listen to their moans<\/p>\n<p>Remember each and every one<br \/>\nWho ever was unkind<br \/>\nWho ever raised a bull hook<br \/>\nAnd whipped you from behind<br \/>\nTread down heavily on their bodies<br \/>\nReward them for their sin<br \/>\nThey were Fucking awful to you<br \/>\nNow that you can pin<\/p>\n<p>Them<br \/>\nDown go do it squash them<br \/>\nLet them feel each whack<br \/>\nGrind their bones to dust<br \/>\nMake each true attack<br \/>\nAs painful and as fatal<br \/>\nAs all those years of woe<br \/>\nYou took it with a trumpet<br \/>\nAnd now of course they know<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is innocent all lining the route<br \/>\nBy their actually being there<br \/>\nThey support it at their root<br \/>\nBy their real complacency<br \/>\nUnwilling to join the throng<br \/>\nOf activists the AR crowd<br \/>\nWho all know just how wrong<\/p>\n<p>The public are and the rest of them<br \/>\nThe robots in the street<br \/>\nSo go among them and batter them<br \/>\nWake them up greet<br \/>\nTheir selfishness their evil<br \/>\nTemple swigging sods<br \/>\nWho take their miserable offerings<br \/>\nAnd present them to their gods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existence in an immortal sense we feel its latent power What is their vast nirvana A visionary of each hour An intimate regard for life Each opportunity To interconnect To 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