I am a modern day nomad living out of a suitcase
I know where I will be most probably, that is half the time
But not sure where I will go next month or next year.
You can call me a Unix gypsy like a four door sedan
A two plus liter V6 fully loaded from the auto giants
But I am a computer gypsy like the computer geek.
I continue to be a nomad not by choice but
Commanded by mid clients who are omnipresent
Or by the bold body shoppers.
My trials and tribulations last till the next H1B
Or a green card- the most favorite card
Not of the plastic variety (Lord, hear my prayers)
Even if I get a new H1B after lot of efforts
My story will continue my trials and tribulations
Start afresh, the same old things
The fact is reinvented, as always
That grass on the other side is not so green
Belying my earlier fondest hopes
That I will be worry-free henceforth.
However if I get the green card
(Praise the Lord, Alleluia)
Then I can decide my own future
Where to stay and what to do.
Full time in Compaq, moonlighting in WalMart
Sky is the limit creative at its best
That's for whom the American dreams
Are made of : strictly for residents
8/20/00
Smoking was injurious to the health
The surgeon general has been warning for so long
"Some reading material" for the studious few
To read and forget before the first butt is lit.
Someone said that a butt has a fire at one end
And a fool at the other, I don't mind being called so
What does he know about the pleasure of smoking
And the soothing effect it has on the raw nerves.
A spectacle to behold,a feast to the eyes
the beauty of the rings floating gently away
Fondly caressed by the breeze, worn like the DFC
Really DFRs, the "Distinguished Flying Rings".
But of late I realized that kept me worrying
Fire at the other end has traveled inwards
Scorched and burnt off my gut and gizzard
So am angry all the timeat the whole world.
What for? I aint sure but I am sure
I am possessed by the fire daemon
Why no Shrink General has warned me
That smoking makes one an angry young man?
Was it that nobody got the revelation I had
Or that they aint know where to print the warning!!
6/07/01
