When the answers that hooked the questions <br />All aligned in a strange way <br />With the numbers, even and odd and in between <br />Somehow then arises doubtful and firm thoughts <br />Thoughts to segregate and temper those reasons <br />Like pepper and salt, tested and tried, solutions <br />Rises answers like smoke from the hooka <br />The troubled mind interrogated <br />The answers are always unquestioning <br />And the reasons are always amusing<br /><br />Reshma Ramesh<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/questions-and-answers-11/