"100% scholarship"
proclaims the billboard
protruding upward from behind the bush,
on a busy intersection.
It stands on rickety legs,
like those of a starved child,
and yet has the body of an obese man,
with sharp edges where the shoulders should have been,
without the head.
It is draped in paper and polythene,
it can barely breathe
but then the fumes of the rush hour traffic
aren't fresh air exactly.
Stunted in appearance,
spat on, scribbled on,
paid scant attention to,
a weirdo by all means.
All alone in the crowd,
and yet,
season after season, year after year,
in rain and in shine,
it stands there,
proudly proclaiming,
in big loud words --
"100% Scholarship"
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