Glopowrimo day 17

April 17 Glopowrimo

Convert a prose piece to poem.

The Homeless Amateur Indian by Manu Joseph

Open like in relationships
But only of a certain kind
Monoclonal cultured beings
Identical ethical organisms
Rainbow people
Who live in the light
Holding candle lit vigils
Against shadowy evils
That they can't understand
And can't be touched by.

Open to catch phrases
Sustainability and ObamaCare
The core of their views
Is contained in
Newsmakers headliners
Priyanka Gandhi is their
Enlightened dare.

Islands in the stream
Over run with common people
And Big brother watching
Them
Insular by choice no more.

Upstaged
Dispossessed
Where will they go
The nice Billy boys?
The posh uptown boys?

Speaking Politically correct
the lingua franca of the West
Foreigner in their birthplace
Or the Global guest?

The government barks
Stand up for the anthem
What should these nice people do
When the system works against them
Beating them black and blue?
There go the sons of the soil
So comfortable in their skins
They know how to work the system
Who to bribe.
The outs and the Ins.

It's hard to change
When one doesn't want
To belong.

But "everybody needs a home
... Because others have their own..."

Dispossessed disposable
Spiritual inheritors of
Insatiable Wanderlust
Refugees in their motherland
Strangers upon their own soil
What choice but to accept defeat
Or crib?

So the amateur Indian
Gets together with his kind
Valiant moral vigilante
He speaks in aggrieved tones
Everything appears better
Than it really was
That's how the story goes.

What can he do
Can the amateur Indian lie
Gathering his own echo chambers
He can Lament and cry.

These nice people
These posh upper set
Nowhere relevant to go
Nowhere to touch base.

Democracy become
A conduit of human flaws.
Might become right.
Righteousness turned
Topsy turvy overnight.

It's not development.
Horror of horrors
Deepest blues...
It is  non Sustainable
The Amateur Indian rues.

(c) Amrita Valan 2017

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