Maps and Graph sheets

Do you remember those maps

we bought at the stationary shop?

Those flimsy sheets of paper that sold maps,

political, apolitical

For five marks, we would mark the bumps and ridges

and the slimy waterbodies

Do you remember the year

when we did not know what

north-west or north-east meant

And a half-mark was cut

Now, they are sold in three-dimensions

and five-dimensions

Our maps are marked by

Caste-marks and headgear

But we know the slimy measurements

Are measured by what we wear