[chottala.com] Re: [notun_bangladesh] Down with the elections

Dear Aslam Vhai,

 

Your poem is very interesting and witty.

 

THANKS

Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:

Down with the elections!

Long live selections!

''Bangladesh isn't ready for democracy

So, continue with authoritarianism and autocracy.

  This argument is not new..

  Everyone believes it, except for a few ....

The masses are chotoloks and the voters are fools

So let the military and the police continue their rules.

The susil somaj will ensure

              That our privileges will endure ....

                                   So, No need to fear …

Justice Ruhul Amin is there….

 

Excerpt from "The People Yes" by Carl Sandburg

The people yes
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
    They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds,
    The people so peculiar in renewal and comeback,
    You can't laugh off their capacity to take it.
The mammoth rests between his cyclonic dramas.

The people so often sleepy, weary, enigmatic,
is a vast huddle with many units saying:
    "I earn my living.
    I make enough to get by
    and it takes all my time.
    If I had more time
    I could do more for myself
    and maybe for others.
    I could read and study
    and talk things over
    and find out about things.
    It takes time.
    I wish I had the time."

The people is a tragic and comic two-face: hero and hoodlum:
phantom and gorilla twisting to moan with a gargoyle mouth:
"They buy me and sell me...it's a game...sometime I'll
break loose..."
.............................................

.............................................

In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
    the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
    "Where to? what next?"

On 2/22/08, Keya Mukherjee <keya1ind@gmail.com> wrote:

undoubtedly darun poem..........kotogulo terms direct use naa korley ektu bhalo hoto......but Mr. Rahman has drawn the true picture of the election .....of this subcontinent ......well done...

On 2/23/08, gopalsengupta@aol.com <gopalsengupta@aol.com> wrote:

Down with the elections
Muhammad Habibur Rahman

Down with the elections!
Down with the elections!
I will not surely vote to lend legitimacy
To the perpetrators of bastard democracy.
I have no zeal, enthusiasm, or gusto
To vote for the violators of election manifesto.
I won't vote for the gun-runners
Even if they carry the freedom banners. And surely not for the arms-smugglers
And surely not for the cheats and jugglers.
I won't vote for the traffickers of women and children
Rather I'll throw away the ballot paper down the drain.
I won't vote for the violators of parliamentary decorum
And those who are responsible for failure of quorum.
Who boycott parliament, but enjoy all the perquisites And sell their privileges in the black markets.
If I tear the ballot paper to pieces,
Won't that be deemed as a note of protest,
As in the American flag-burning cases?
As a law-abiding citizen, and not out of fear,
But for avoiding a hassle, I elect not to tear
The ballot paper to pieces, and instead I wait
For a lack-lustre candidate,
Who has got the least chance to win.
And no chance to harm me or ruin.
You may say it's a negative vote,
But you may kindly note
For casting a positive vote
I may have to wait
For a dream candidate
For a long time -- maybe for eternity,
Till someone appears riding on a white horse To build the golden city.
Meantime, let me vote on the polling day,
I am free on this only day.
Let me vote for the candidate
Who has got the least chance to win.
And no chance to harm me or ruin.
I will not surely vote to lend legitimacy
To the perpetrators of bastard democracy.

Justice Habibur Rahman is a former Chief Justice and Chief Adviser to the Caretaker Government.

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