'Vacana #105'

A snake-charmer and his noseless wife,
snake in hand, walk carefully
trying to read omens
for a son's wedding,

but they meet head-on
a noseless woman
and her snake-charming husband,
and cry 'The omens are bad!'

His own wife has no nose;
there's a snake in his hand.
What shall I call such fools
who do not know themselves

and see only the others,

            O lord
            of the meeting
            rivers!

	-- Basavanna