Song of a Reformed Headhunter

Palinode VII Remember that construction worker run over by the bus, setting off a riot? I see him in every Indian here, short or tall, handsome or devastated, starving or sleek-headed and satisfied. I can’t help it. Why can’t I see Rajaratnam our Deputy Prime Minister or the guitarist Alex Abisheganaden instead? I go up, like getting on a bus, to every Indian here and I ask, are you Sakthivel Kumaravelu? And they say, every one of them, smiling, or grimacing, or furrowing the brow, Don’t you wish for me to be him? Reuters: Migrant workers fear massive Singapore dormitory lockdown is coronavirus timebomb. Image: Centurion Corporation