December 28, 2008

Haiku Post - Paan chewing boy


Cud-chewing, though biologically an exclusive preserve of ruminants (=moo!), has been electively adopted by man who engages in the practice with great enthusiasm. This "biologic-mimicry" is particularly prevalent in avver-India - and it's very apparent too - one only needs to look at the nearest corner in the urban-milieu to see indelible proof of its popularity. Our environs are tainted by the expectorations of the
orally-fixated urban painters of India.

This haiku is dedicated to these saliva-spouting gents:

"Paan-chewing lout,
know there is a God above,
he gifts you OSMF"


(OSMF or Oral Sub-mucous Fibrosis is a slowly-progressing disease that results in the hardening of the tissues of the mouth, eventually progressing to a stage where mouth-opening is so severely restricted that even eating solid-food is an accomplishment. It usually affects paan-chewers and users of areca-nut products, and is a forerunner of cancer. The irony here being that the very substance being chewed/spewed ultimately locks the jaws shut)



image from Manjeet Bawa, Sanjay
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3 comments:

Rach said...

LOL :D
That's a Dentist Haiku if there ever was one :)

Shivaja said...

haha...lots of such painters in Gujjuland too. I saw that one hospital building had put up pics of Gods at all landings (The corners of landings being more prone to such paintings). After all "avver Indians" are a bit scared when it comes to Gods.

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