In front of a stalwart star hotel
in a Keralite medium city
A garden of cactus, Aho!
A wild garden neatly pruned
with all four walls around.
Entered I eager to see and learn
the inside beauty, the business too.
Halls that feel no cold nor heat
walls hanging pictures of nudes
Waiters with coat and cap inside
The food-mall that's mattressed fine
Inside glass cases creeps
snakes of varied forms;
Sights dreadful, before.
Reptiles boil, spilling in the air
smells alluring the senses...
Bodies of dogs get roasted and boiled
anointed in colours and odours sweet.
Bearers serve in modest air
around tables prepared for
those from alien lands.
Servants get pleased filling
pockets with bill-balances.
Wondered by sights my conscience did speak
"Culture western, in corners Eastern"
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