Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 6, Number 1. May 2023. ISSN: 2581-7094
Rose
colony
--- Subit
Banerjee
This is an
Asylum sir!
High up on the
hillside.
Down there, you
will find the turbulent sea
This is the
place for the amnesiacs;
and the people,
who are irretrievably depressed,
drift down the
air counting one, two, three...
Excuse me sir!
Have you seen
some lunatic
jokers flying hand in hand
moments
ago?
There.There they
live in a sanatorium,
where the hogs
are kept, beside the dunghill.
Look here
sir! Look well, please!
Here they are
making a Raven, highbreed.
I have named him
Drighanchu. Wearing a pitch dark head-dress
he will fly and
perch on a high branch, utter a 'Caw'!
I mean, all
these are mere fantasy.
Here we
stand, face to face
inside the
Colosseum, two worthy opponents.
This is what we call
reality.
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