On the ground floor
of the Aerospace Building
Mounted on a wall
is a list of faculty members.
First professors, then associates
followed by the assistants
The last name on the list - mine.
Come next week,
that name will disappear.
The letters making it up
back in the box, waiting
to form future names.
Bye monkeys, bye deer
bye snakes, bye banyans.
Sometime in the future,
who knows near or far?
A day will certainly come
when elements of this body
will scatter to become -
parts of a worm, a waterfall
maybe even a distant star.
-Ranga Kidambi
(written & article post by Rangu)
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