Remember me? I am Professor Sheth. <br />Once I taught you geography. Now <br />I am retired, though my health is good. <br />My wife died some years back. <br />By God's grace, all my children <br />Are well settled in life. <br />One is Sales Manager, <br />One is Bank Manager, <br />Both have cars. <br />Other also doing well, though not so well. <br />Every family must have black sheep. <br />Sarala and Tarala are married, <br />Their husbands are very nice boys. <br />You won't believe but I have eleven grandchildren. <br />How many issues you have? Three? <br />That is good. These are days of family planning. <br />I am not against. We have to change with times. <br />Whole world is changing. In India also <br />We are keeping up. Our progress is progressing. <br />Old values are going, new values are coming. <br />Everything is happening with leaps and bounds. <br />I am going out rarely, now and then <br />Only, this is price of old age <br />But my health is O.K. Usual aches and pains. <br />No diabetes, no blood pressure, no heart attack. <br />This is because of sound habits in youth. <br />How is your health keeping? <br />Nicely? I am happy for that. <br />This year I am sixty-nine <br />and hope to score a century. <br />You were so thin, like stick, <br />Now you are man of weight and consequence. <br />That is good joke. <br />If you are coming again this side by chance, <br />Visit please my humble residence also. <br />I am living just on opposite house's backside.<br /><br />Nissim Ezekiel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-professor-4/
