Think of that Five Rupee Gain

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“What all could be bought”, I think

“In fifteen rupees?”

Maximum a quarter of lady fingers

Or one kilo rice or potato

But I can’t feed a family

With a quarter of lady fingers or potato.

They say I could get mobile recharge coupon

For ten rupees, but I do not have a mobile.

They also say I could buy fifty grams of peanuts for ten.

But what would I get for rupees five?

“Will give you a banana,” someone says.

We, myself and my wife went to the shop

To buy some poison to end it all.

But a packet of poison they sell for twenty.

None gives poison on credit.

In the next shop they have

Rice, wheat, kerosene and all what we want

But we owe the owner fifteen rupees

Lucky we are, he hacked us to death

With each measured cut.

What if we are dead?

Think of that five rupees gain.