Three-wheeled Life
I won't go to the school sir I feel ashamed to go there
This is all I have now -- friends this year I did sit for
the secondary school exam, but my father's liver burst --
the morning's sun has circled to noontime fire What? Here? -- Phone? -- Go down this alley
right by Jamuna Stores -- there sir you can see it
Now where? -- School? -- you're still teacher class ten
I still remember sir your 'Stopping the woods...' Am I talking too much? Sir I didn't need to before --
Now -- you know? -- sir so many different kinds of people
who hop aboard without fixing the fare, when
it comes time to pay: 'All you rickshawallahs the same...' Don't be shy if you need anything say so sir
From morning till night you'll find Subrata here. Shaheen Afroze is a schoolteacher.
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