Long Lata Poems

someone always told me this with tears in her eyes...


(for Lata Sethi's late-mother, who was my mother’s ‘sister’ and who took us all into her heart, and for Lata and Ravi Sethi of Defence Colony,...

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              The Night Soil Man

			I

		Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
             ...

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Remember how neither one of us could remember how we became friends. 
Remember the summers when we would hang out together all day long.
Remember the time you told the man in the McDonalds drive thru...

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Halina't maglaro Tayo ng tagu-taguan at ikaw ang Taya.
Tumakbo pa ako para magtago hanggang sa isang dingding ang aking nabangga.
Pero sayang lang Pala ang pagtago ko sa liblib na taguan,
Dahil una palang wala Ka nang...

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Heartache! 
Huge heartache!
No, no, no! Unstoppable the tears!
Everything is good to look but I’m not
I’m dumped into heartache and logged tears
Long sighs, much heart beating in hearing the news!

She is no more! Queen of melody...

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And the legend!
Oh! to write this very difficult sorrowful!
One after another is passing away!
Mourning for the great Lata Ji is not completed still
And we’ve lost another great unrivaled melodic star
All brightness is now in the...

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Piedade das pessoas Felizes

Ninguém tem pena das pessoas felizes. As pessoas adoram ter angústias, inseguranças, dúvidas existenciais dilacerantes, porque é isso que funciona na nossa sociedade. 
As pessoas com problemas são sempre mais interessantes. 
E,...

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I am ... I am the land of Ashoka the Great, of Kwaja E Hind, 
Sachin's Sixer, of Sania’s Stoke,  of Aryabhata & Abdul Kalam,
Tan sen and AR Rahmans,Lata Mangheshakar & Mohammed Rafi,
of Chanakya...

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Yuh come inna mi office
come tek out mi tings 
yuh bright!!!!!!!!!!!
Mi nuh undastan yuh!!!!!!!!!!

Mi sey to miself...
"Lawd, mi a go forgive him....see di good side"
but nooooooooooo......
yuh come, nuff up yuhself and TIEF!!!!

Bwoy o bwoy....
ghost know...

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A large, vast part of Asia, 
It's India in our hearts not Russia.
A place where crops live, 
And health and fitness to us they give.
Don't forget our nation, 
To make it forward is our ambition.

Lal...

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Quizás hay algo en ti que hace que mi corazón lata así
Lo que yo pienso es esa cosa, no entiendo esa cosa

Mi corazón quiere contarte cada molestia de mi corazón
Entonces dejo de pensar cuales son...

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Lata Mangeshkar the icon of Indian music left for her heavenly abode today leaving the whole country mourning.

She was not married, had no children but government, police, are personally taking care to ensure her last...

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GOOD MORNING MISTER WALKA

Good morning Mister WALKA
I come to see your DAUGHTA,
I hope it's not ah BOTHA,
Cause all I really wanted was a cold glass of WATA
And so, if it is not such ah BOTHA,...

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Yada, yada, yada;
I slipped and fell and I twist my tongue;
Spoke so ravenishly datta, cotta lata;
Dislodged wit coal miner’s lung;

See Porky spit"Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all FOLKS!"
Penny Henry  laid me sum eggs flung,
I’d sli,...

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