Dubey, Your English? My English, Sir, Bihari English, I Mean Hindustani English Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

What are you speaking, Mr.Dubey,
English is English,
Have heard about British English,
Spoken in the Oxcambridge areas
And American English,
Spoken in New York, California, Kentucky and Massachussets?

Sorry sir, I can pronounce it all, but not Iowa and Massachussets
As I cannot the French names,
Somerset Maugham and Maupassant
And Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

My English is sir, bluff-master's English,
I mean the foolish rustic minister's Bhojpurian English,
The blunt cowboy's English,
The lathimen speaking English boldly and bluntly,
It is but Hindustani English.

Where will you find the English of the United Kingdom,
Going by the King's or Queen's Standard,
Oxford and Cambridge caressing them,
Harvard, Boston, New York and Chicago
Nurturing Americanness and Americanism?

My English a Bihari ruffian's English,
A tobacco-eater and a paan-taker's English,
Taking tobacco into the mouth or paan
And speaking in English,
Sorry sir, those who had not to go foreign,
Went they to on fellowship programmes
And remained I here
To take my company.