Caution

Caution !
Injurious to your health

If you are an adventure buff
and are really very tough
wanting to live life on the edge
bungee jumping off the ledge,

If you trapeze through life
without a safety net
and take on all comers
and every chilling bet,

If you want to live life
with adrenaline pumping
your heart really thumping
and pulse always jumping,

Forget rafting through floods
and climbing through ice;
'Jaws of death' rides
and fires that singe your hide;
jay walking in war zones,
traveling through time and space
and surviving in the wild -
all that is comparatively mild

Come here and give
the ultimate challenge a try
Between buses, autos and water lorries -
navigate the roads of Chennai

You can truly taste fear
by braving the traffic here
(if you don't get bumped-off*, first
by the many hit-men* here)

~ Shanta ~

* both must have been coined here !

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