Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur

Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur

 

Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur*

Set up shop (O!) Brahmin virtue pure

No hungry customers

Knocked past the front shutters

Though brisk business raged at rear door.

 

 * Brahmin enclave in Chennai, Tamil-Nadu, India.

Brahmins were not vegetarians from antiquity.

 

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013