Intestinal Gas.2. Poem by Nabakishore Dash

Invariably colourless,
Some times odourless,
sometimes pungent and nauseating,
it causes the men in
immediate surrounding
to forcibly close the nasal apertures
to avoid inhaling the smelly odour.
Some times silent,
sometimes resembling the sounds
of the clarinet and a flute,
sometimes like an aeroplane,
sometimes pronged,
sometimes shortened,
are the various characteristics
and their textures.

It often makes offended
in a meeting or in a crowd.
If not judiciously released,
laughter and ridicules are
are the sure outcomes
of this humiliating sound.


Rest in 'Intestinal gas'. 3.