After years of dodging with pollution,
the government of this strange country
has called for a complete ban on automobiles

Electric cars are prohibited for public use
They are reserved for VIPs

Shoot on sight has been ordered
for anyone seen with a vehicle

The rich can afford horse-carriages
while the poor will go by foot

The middle-class is content
with the languid bullock-carts

Oxen are as important
as cows these days:
they're faithful fathers of conveyance

Mobile apps are now used
to book a bullock-cart

Of all the inconvenience
the media reported the case
of a hopeless lover stranded outside
the Trump statue
with no carts in sight yesterday

His beloved was waiting
for him in the Modi Park

There's no fuel to run
the engine of love these days,
the media declared in unison