Bani’s children’s coping mechanism

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There you see Kali

limping in public hee hee

this way she earns money

and gives it to Bani

and there is your bamboo,

we call him so he’s lambu

he sings all day with his broken voice

people look at his plucked eyes

he gets sympathy notes and coins

for the noise he makes in his lines;

but there, there can you see?

Pinky, Rashid and Rani

with severed legs they sing and dance

Bani is happy for the money

they get her every day, with their romance

and their jaw-dropping stance

I do everything; cleaning, performing, cooking

collecting dough from the earth

each day we spend laughing and roaming,

we are Bani’s children, right from our re-birth.

We have one whole meal every day

so what if we have severed our parts?

for good we are not here to stay

Bani is our savior, our mother clever and smart.