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Hail to the City Mayor, Hail...!
Else all the city-zens will fail...!!
Let's say - you treat time as money...
So forgetting phone calls from your honey...
You embark on foot journey seeing the road-floods...
All your possible distant transports having no possibility
Of reaching you at all ...
Let alone dropping you ...
At your destination in some certainty ...!
Off the STP - the Software Technology Park,
Off the STP - the Software Technology Park,
Where the great young bright brains always spark...!
Or is that oftentimes dark...?
Or near its farmers' market...street dogs always bark...??
The Janata Tower - that is...!
Or the Ershad Building ? -
The Janata Tower - that is...!
Or the Ershad Building ? -
That name you always try to fight off -
From the Rickshaw-pullers' mind and brain ...!
But they seldom give in !
Name of that Murderer Profligate -
That worst military junta thug of that Time...!
Had consorts like the Milky Moudud & the Sugary Zafar...!
Fairer sex consorts were too in abundance -
Still now in his ninety twilight years, many often perform belly-dance...!
On (almost) to the front road - flooded with muddy gooey water...!
Sneaking sideways through the north exit -
You get some hope, still you yell out - 'Shit'...!
You walk past the black thick muddy road,
You get past the riotous chariots ...
Sneaking is an art in this part of this World...!
Where everyone fights for an inch of free road...!
Where no one gives in...!
And thus everyone gets locked, free road goes to none...!
You realize this in this City of this great Mayor through each of your bone and bone...!!
So you hone ...
Hone all your survival skills, you hone...!!!
In to the great TTS - Tejgaon Truck Stand...
The once upon dark mysterious place -
Especially after the dusk ...
Phantoms used to dwell,
Dwelled the muggers, prostitutes, drug dwellers too ...!!
Nobody seemed to believe ...
That this-City-dwellers will relieve
Some day from all those atrocities in this place...!
So, Salute to this City Mayor, Salute...!
For what he did to this TTS -
With all his will power and brute...!
You have a great walk in the newly made promenade
Beautiful road islands with nice green trees and flowers
A great mural of the Nation's Father with valiant leaders...!
Through the evening crowd (you wonder why they gather
every evening in such large numbers...?) you proceed...!
Thinking all your planned tasks that you didn't and that you did...!!
Soon the good time gets passed with the polished roads and sidewalks.
Enter another great dev works of this City Mayor -
Where all footpaths are stripped naked
To dress them with more expensive and expressive dresses-
So the city dwellers look, speak and admire with awe...!
But now you need to sacrifice, you need to be patient ...
Nothing comes in one generation -
Listen, you listen ...!!
Never ever ask ...
Why most politicians recoup million times of their investments in just a 5-year-term...?
Why most politicians wear so many mask...??
So you have a topsy turvy walking, a treacherous-footpath-walk ...!
Where you walk ups and downs, lefts and rights, rights or wrongs ...
You climb walls, quite deep city drains, balancing by both your swinging hands...
Feel the thrill when you are crossing a trapeze in a circus ...!
And the City Mayor never charges you for this thrilling, for this excitement ride...
Which you often pay hundreds of dollars abroad in amusement and simulation parks...!
This City and its Mayor give you all these free as incentive perks...!!
So you cross past factories after factories
Which are our Industrial Foundations...
Frontiers they were in those 1950s...
You smell soaps, you smell biscuits ...
You cross lagoons, you cross islands
You realize how the perspective really matters
When there are no differentiation between streets and footpaths ...
You have to cross both - to find way, to proceed -
You know that not everyone yet sold to greed...!
You see trails of hard working people patient and waiting
For that great moment when true leaders will truly emerge...!
You never lose hope - You know that truly in your heart...!!
But for now, Hail the City Mayor, Hail!
Else this little travelog will fail ...!!
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BTW, here goes another travelog (3rd Aug, 2017) of the Traveler Sirajee:
(the distant-grand-grand-grand-son of the great Ibn Botuta... :P ...)
["""Started journey at 4:30 PM,
reached Congo Basin swamp forest
of Agargaon branch at 6:30 PM,
walked through the slippery land,
surpassed spikes and small hills,
crossed the hostile Pacific Ocean
of Shewrapara wing, touched the Mariana Trench,
rode the "el-Van" ship of captain Akkas to cross
the Atlantic Ocean of Kazipara hemisphere -
finally reached home after this
exciting thrilling world tour
within only, oooonly four and a quarter hours,
that's a new world record! ... :-) """...]
See... his delight as a city-zen of this City and this Mayor!
So Hail to the Mayor, Hail...!
Else this traveler too will fail...!!
