Everybody is adjusting but us

Md. Rezaul Karim, Assistant Professor, Southern University Bangladesh

Tea seller adjusted their price by adding two taka

Rickshaw-pullers do the same by also asking double,

Making trouble!

The public resentments bubble.

Vegetables, fish, meat and other essential also springing,

The prices of commodities are skewed between tomorrow and today,

It was so cheaper one would say than yesterday.

Those days vendors used to be sad for

Not being sold out-

Today not-

It’s a blessing cause tomorrow will be hot!

Oppositions were sizzling in the street for price hike a couple of years back

People believe them and voted them to power

While saying it wasn’t yesterday that bad!

Everybody fools public -

Kick public-

Abuse public-

Do public undo-

Probably the idiots are happier than their brothers sane too.

Public are peaceful, quiet like the serene lake water-

Other vendors also doing it

Calmly, obediently like others!

With or without excuses made prices treble, quadruple, or

Many more-

Government adjusting the price by tax rise,

Expanding the tax nets, as-

Before rich few thousands were paying

Now many millions middle class also going, filling in, and running

To pay the bill, pay the taxes and adjusting the extra hiking.

Only the we people-

Get smashed like potatoes, and

Could do nothing, but to have the crunch

Middle class the sufferers,

The torch bearers,

Bottom classes have nothing-

So, they have no complaining,

Upper classes have disposables,

No worry, no crying, nothing is horrible!

The middle class, fixed earners

Are in pain and

Stood as sandwiches, moving nowhere.

Nothing to gain.