PREFERENCES

PREFERENCES

Jumbo jets, ships, trains and trucks
Loaded with jumbo cartons
Of medicines food and clothing.
Jumbo post bags filled with
Drafts cheques of varied
Denominations and currencies
Relief.. operations…
A mega event..
For a mega disaster..
Shaking all up
The quake of the century
A mega upheaval..
Thank you friends and ye countrymen
Keep them coming…

PS: Your street cobbler rotting under his tattered canvass for years.
Your street urchins sleeping in puddles of gutter water…
Your young office boy dropping out of school for lack of funds.
Your maid’s 14yr old filling up for mother instead of going to school
Ignore them all.. deny them your helping hand…
For familiarity breeds contempt.. and there's nothing mega about them...
And of course.. it’s a matter of preferences.. when you want to help!!!!!

SHOBHNA RAVI

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