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Writer's pictureKeshav Suryanarayanan

#94 Who I wish had even half your guilt



Those who put pineapple on pizza

And those who think that’s not absolutely wrong


Economists who think the market works

And the billionaires who bankroll their thoughts


Creeps in buses and streets and bars

And the mobs with their hockey sticks

Who beat up not the creeps but the lovers in parks.


Bullies in the school playground

And those in parliament.


Scammers—the retailers who are kind enough to call

And the wholesale kind who fund the entire sarkar.


The CEOs of oil companies who knew the science

And the slick advertisers who anyways sold us out


Lovers who lie, and lovers who cheat

And those who knew and let it go on


I wish all these people had even half your guilt

And at what

At just at having skipped a meal again.

At having asked maybe one question too many

At just having spoken and said hi too loud


I wish all these people had even half your guilt

And the world would be a much better place


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