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TABLE -LAYOUT  BY THE HOME SCIENCE STUDENTS .

                                                 THE  LUNCH BOX
                                    AMIT NARAYAN SATPATHY, XI/XII

                                                                                     And it smiles, karela
              A steel box.
                                             From forgetting to wash
                                                                                     to Bhindi to shalgam,
          Just right to fill in
                                          My hands after the reagent
                                                                                     all Angrezi bites I
         Those phulkas for
                                            Fell in the Chemistry lab,
                                                                                     forget When I take a
          The morning, rice
                                              No one around and my                   bite Of what the
         For the afternoon,
                                            Partaken love makes me                   lunchbox
       Chiwda and mixture
                                                Partake of my food.                  Has served me often.
           For the evening.                                                          And reminiscing
                                          Oh! How many pains I took
          An all time friend,                                                        about Those times, I
                                              To make that happen,
                                                                                     find This taste
      Yet called a lunchbox                    The lunchbox knows
                                                                                     recurrent,
          As if it wanted to                  How I wrote her name
                                                                                     In the food then, in
                                            With ketchup on the rolls.
     Behave surreptitiously.
                                                                                     Life now.
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