Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Man Who Sells Smoke

In a market driven, man made, mad world we have to confront different products for different use in our daily life. Streets were stinking with these stray silly sellers. Recently I had met a man who sells smoke. He simply do the daily fumigation job for the street side shops.He has an interesting instrument in his hand. He put the gum frankincense and other smoke emitting herbal, small grain like powders into this insrument and finally put the burning coal. After a few seconds suddenly the sweet smelling smoke emit from the instrument.Then he simply shake the smoke emitting insrument, with this swinging action he enter into the shop and spread the smoke to the stinking corners. Now a beautiful odour stay in the shop. After this highly professional job he collects his fees and simply enter into another shop with this smoke emitting instrument with a beedi ( a typical leafmade Kerala Cigarette)
in his lips. I adore him for his odour emitting smoke and his guts to live in this globalized globe.

3 comments:

Sunil Shiv Shankar said...

I love the title!

S. Suresh said...

Are u writing for the global readers?
I say because, this is an ordinary street job like mobile ironing unit or a vegetable vendor on job with his cart.
Are we going away from real life?

v h nishad said...

the man who sells smoke! applicabe to u too!