my thoughts on jam
eating bread and Mala's jam,
i wonder
why is this jam so sweet?
so sweet that it burns my tongue in its sweetness
i cringe
but it has chunky juicy pieces of strawberry in it
a tangy burn is a small price indeed.
the flavour is clearly different from the bland kissan jam we keep at home,
bland and fake.
"kissan" jam they call them selves...
i often wonder how many "kissan"s they exploited to keep this jam's prices attractive to the middling consumer.
we, who care less for taste than we let it show,
we, for whom the monthly budget runs tight-
when salary comes in,
groceries take it away,
insurance takes it away,
EMI takes it away
chotu's quarterly fees take it away,
pinky's college admission fees take it away,
shyam's phone bill takes it away,
and sonam's marriage takes it away
......oh it took mona-bai's gold too, which she took from her mother, who took it from her mother.
It reduced each time it was handed down,
and hopefully sonam's husband's family will keep her and her gold safe, and not sell her and her gold off like what happened to jyothi-chachi's neighbour's daughter.
jyothi-chachi lived in a bad colony anyway. shyam, don't go there even if your friends drag you. mona-bai tells jyothi-chachi to keep a watch anyway, shyam never obeys.
i often wonder why shyam is rarely at home,
why he always gets those weird haircuts,
why he spends so much time at night whispering into his phone,
why he rides a scooter without a license and why he carries books to college if he never attends classes,
why he is always at that stand where he muches on weird powders and seeds wrapped in a leaf covered in a kind-of jam.
no, i'm a good person, i only eat kissan jam, and the occasional luxury-Mala's jam.
i wonder
why is this jam so sweet?
so sweet that it burns my tongue in its sweetness
i cringe
but it has chunky juicy pieces of strawberry in it
a tangy burn is a small price indeed.
the flavour is clearly different from the bland kissan jam we keep at home,
bland and fake.
"kissan" jam they call them selves...
i often wonder how many "kissan"s they exploited to keep this jam's prices attractive to the middling consumer.
we, who care less for taste than we let it show,
we, for whom the monthly budget runs tight-
when salary comes in,
groceries take it away,
insurance takes it away,
EMI takes it away
chotu's quarterly fees take it away,
pinky's college admission fees take it away,
shyam's phone bill takes it away,
and sonam's marriage takes it away
......oh it took mona-bai's gold too, which she took from her mother, who took it from her mother.
It reduced each time it was handed down,
and hopefully sonam's husband's family will keep her and her gold safe, and not sell her and her gold off like what happened to jyothi-chachi's neighbour's daughter.
jyothi-chachi lived in a bad colony anyway. shyam, don't go there even if your friends drag you. mona-bai tells jyothi-chachi to keep a watch anyway, shyam never obeys.
i often wonder why shyam is rarely at home,
why he always gets those weird haircuts,
why he spends so much time at night whispering into his phone,
why he rides a scooter without a license and why he carries books to college if he never attends classes,
why he is always at that stand where he muches on weird powders and seeds wrapped in a leaf covered in a kind-of jam.
no, i'm a good person, i only eat kissan jam, and the occasional luxury-Mala's jam.