gajanan mishra (3rd April 19sixty / Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India)

Look, this stick
Is walking on the road
With me.
Be sure this stick
Is not a living being.

Here I am the substance
Here this stick is category
I know history geography
And present politics and law
Stick does not know
What is happening.

I know I am eating food and I know
And how the food is transformed
In to energy and this stick sustains.
I know the stick
That in various forms I am demonstrating.