and is hissing like crazy
my eyes are red
the serpent’s poison
has entered
my bloodstream
and I am thrashing about
from the pain
life is so horrible
why can’t it leave
me alone
why this wickedness
towards me
what did I do?
and is hissing like crazy
my eyes are red
the serpent’s poison
has entered
my bloodstream
and I am thrashing about
from the pain
life is so horrible
why can’t it leave
me alone
why this wickedness
towards me
what did I do?
of kangaroos
there is no place
for you
the blackness
is dangerous
it stings like a serpent
and the whiteness
is fake
it is actually blue
and burning
and you simply
can’t touch that
you will be instantly
charred
and the yellow
is vomit and shit
you’ll drown in
and before
you know it
the colourlessness
that is racing
towards you
crashes into you
and you die
like a fly.
is when your hands turn
to stone
and it is also true
when everything in the world
has gone awry
when the sky falls to the Earth
shattering into a million pieces
and the planet losing its orbit
goes wildly howling
through the universe
like a mad dog
and everyone feels
the same way too
and people bark
instead of speaking
and silence is the sting
of the serpent
this morning I saw
the cosmos crack
without a noise
I couldn’t hold my poise
my feet turned
into crawling creatures
I have never seen
I don’t know where I’ve been
the whole thing is so mean
making all our brains to lean
into the darkness
that is rushing past us
like a demented monster bus
but I’m writing it all down
because it makes me feel better
if I cuss
when I see people bursting into pus
so life you poisonous witch
if our deaths satisfy your endless itch
here I spit on you bloody bitch.
with the sound
of the cicadas
and the trees
stand still in
admiration
the mountains
are dazed
under the sun
the blue sky
floats free
in sheer delight
and big white clouds
smile
life is beautiful
like these multi-coloured birds
that flew past my house
this morning
brown and red
and white and big
and I feel light
as laughter
as a dog barks
and an autorickshaw
goes past the street
and the dog
continues to bark
and the electricity
which had gone
comes back
and I am then
reminded
of my illness
the claws
in my throat
and I think
about my death
and the leaves
of the clove tree
outside my house
are still
and the sound
the cicadas make
now seem like
a giant serpent
a wave that will
swallow me whole.