the restaurant served momos and thukpa
Tibetan meat dishes from the land of snows,
but the Tibetans had left there long ago
all thanks to the Chinese who took their land,
so there they were down in south India
living their lives and making a living.
a group of Tamils came in and sat down
big strong men, dark as the greatest,
they travelled all over the land
to wherever work took them,
and they were much in demand
nominally Hindu they had the smiles of free men
in command of their own nature,
so it was no big deal for them to order dinner
and eat their god with plenty of chillies,
washing it down with hot sweet tea
- from Poems from India 2002
