To Davos, Mr. Eliot
by C. Jayant Praharaj
Let us go then to Davos, Mr.Eliot,
Through the byways of high-flown conversations,
Amongst certain loud nitwits
And some sputtering bigwigs,
When the halls reverberate with erudition,
And the oblivious earth continues its daily rotation.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
When the distant cries of starving kids
And the farmers struggling to make ends meet
Have been sanitized for dinner conversations,
Let us go, let us go,
To where the heartless heads meet
In certain abstract unsentimental retreats.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
Let us go then
To hear the neatness freaks,
They will make our lives ordered
And control our cattle fodder,
Let us go and hear
The minions of the autocrats roar.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
Let us go hear the idle prattle
Of anointed experts,
Let us hear them press
For regimented progress,
As the decades go by
And the world goes more awry.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
by C. Jayant Praharaj
by C. Jayant Praharaj
Let us go then to Davos, Mr.Eliot,
Through the byways of high-flown conversations,
Amongst certain loud nitwits
And some sputtering bigwigs,
When the halls reverberate with erudition,
And the oblivious earth continues its daily rotation.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
When the distant cries of starving kids
And the farmers struggling to make ends meet
Have been sanitized for dinner conversations,
Let us go, let us go,
To where the heartless heads meet
In certain abstract unsentimental retreats.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
Let us go then
To hear the neatness freaks,
They will make our lives ordered
And control our cattle fodder,
Let us go and hear
The minions of the autocrats roar.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
Let us go hear the idle prattle
Of anointed experts,
Let us hear them press
For regimented progress,
As the decades go by
And the world goes more awry.
I hear the suited speakers come and go
Talking of trade flow and cash flow.
by C. Jayant Praharaj