Indian Standards Time Poem by Louis Santhana

INDIAN STANDARDS TIME

I am a Gold medalist university teacher
would know things according to the syllabus
if you come up with doubts little outside
I would only say that it is none of my business

I am an old- time thief
yet, I have a code of conduct and ethics
I would not come to steal you blindly
If you have suffered a burglary, current year already

I am a payment-seat doctor
you will agree, that I have to earn faster
your complaints on a disease, that I had left out under choice
cannot afford to miss you, as casualties anyway are much common

I am a foreign-aided, self-made preacher
can heal, and know by heart, all the Gospel Verses
but, I am not meant to enter the Heaven
as I have the key and fee book, to let you all enter in

I am running a top-gear beauty parlour
ugly faces are here mended and tinkered
by fake or crook, we show them up in colour
men lose balance at first sight and are liable to blunder

I am a 35 year-old spinster
gave an advt. in the newspaper
….only married men did respond in good number
saying, ‘privileged and powerful are concubines'

I am a liquor chain owner
your interests are auctioned in my favour
spurious and adultered spirits are no matter
as I have a bounden duty to keep you simply warmer.

Louis Santhana