BAMBOOZLED
Agenda: Government’s indecision on whether bamboo is a tree, grass or weed.
Bamboo: I am bamboozled!
Tea K: The nerve, calling you a tree.
Banyan: Oh God! I have still not overcome being called an undergarment.
Sal: Damn the politicians, sala! They have even derived a derogatory term from my name.
Shisham: Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the hardest of them all?
Rosewood: A rose by any other name……
Peepal: Shut up! People rest in my shade of their volition and they say I peep all, damn the lexicographers!
Acacia: Serves you right, imagine growing in all nooks & crevices – no wonder you are a peep all! Anyway how does it matter? A few more decades and I will be king of the forests. All Forest Officers have been told to plant only my species in all the afforestation schemes, because we grow the fastest! All you guys will be extinct!
Babool: Ha ha ha! I beat you all hands down, I grow the fastest and I don’t even need to get planted – we spread ourselves and very fast at that.
Peepal, Banyan (in chorus): Will you two shut up or else we will strangle you with our aerial roots!
Tea K: How can bamboo be timber?
DFO: If this stupid conference is over, will you all shut up and grow fast. I have run out of money. So tree, timber, grass, weed or toothpaste does not matter, just grow so I can cut you guys down to size.
Bamboo: I am still bamboozled!
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