Killing A Rat Poem by Jyotishman Debnath

Killing a Rat
he is disturbing me for so long
haunting me like the ghosts of past
inside outside his unbearable presence
his small eyes irritates me
and his long tail is just like the rope of hangman

his unbearable presence
ah! painful

he is a rat a primordial rat
at night he crawls into my heart
and intrudes the four corner
and my life diminishes
inch by inch

he made my heart hollow
and the the heart floats in the stream of blood
floating heart!

II) life itself is a long death
at a night of silence fire and rain
death yellow
death red
death blue
but not white

III) as if the rat is trying to kill me;
slow poison
like Napoleon

Josephine Josephine! !

it has been haunting me for so long
last night he played a cruel trick
he ran through my veins and cut the place where it hurts most

I realized something must be done
I bought a mousetrap
and kept beside my bosom
but that day he hadn't come

Iv)

I waited weeks and months
finally one day AS LIFE IS SLIPPING THROUGH MY HANDS
I caught him with my right hand where mushroom grows
and put him into a bucket full of water
a fat rat existed by sucking my vitality
suddenly a sadist feeling ran through my veins
no biology text has recorded the taste of it's meat
I took out the rat
and cut his skin out him


so much effort
such a fatal murder
for my this late meal