Padma Shri 2009 for Arts

Art today be ash,
And artists, trash.
They art sick,
Their art sicker.

Limerick # 12: The Price of Oil

[One of my entries for Saarang Online Creative Writing Contest. The topic: 'Connect these three not-so-obvious ideas/themes into one single piece -- Schadenfreude, Shoes, Shame.']

The world wide web laughed itself dead
After this journalist stood up and said:
'Shameless moron W!
This is gonna trouble you'
And flung his shoes at the president's head.