The times are a-steaming
With heat, hate, humbug;
Victors of a street fight
Romp with ominous chug chug.
Money-spinners mark assent
To muscle brains of the day;
Celebrities do not mind being
Slaves to what golden mouth may say
Of the honest and the innocent,
Or the unsmartly tame;
Lacking the glibness of tongue,
The meek must take the blame.
Never did the devil quote
Scripture so brazenly as now;
The just croak in crevices,
The rogues stride above.
Badri Raina