The Snake Charmer

A Snake Charmer and his Noseless Wife
snake in hand, walk carefully
trying to read omens
for a son's wedding

but they meet head on
a noseless woman
and her snake-charming husband,
and cry 'the omens are bad'

his own wife has no nose;
there's a snake in his hand.
What shall I call such fools
who do not know themselves

and see only the others,

O Lord
of the Meeting
Rivers!

-written by Basavanna