“I saw a blind woman on the street
& helped her cross,
she hit me hard & said,
You loser! I didn’t want to cross.
Her punch was so hard,
it made me sigh & from nowhere, I got
this gift of black eye.
Oof! How I overcame my shock & moved ahead,
Thief! Thief! then suddenly someone said.
To catch that burglar, I threw a stone,
It got misfired, hit a bee-hive,
Bees swarmed me, bit me,
somehow I escaped, swollen and barely alive.
Looking not less than a monster now,
no wonder dogs stared at me & barked bow-bow.
I ran for my life but landed in a garbage bin,
what an embarrassment, whole crowd gave me a grin.
If this wasn’t enough for the day,
some dumb had enjoyed banana treat &
thrown that useless skin on the street,
oh! What unluck I stepped over it
& that last viable bone left in me,
was now broken to a bit.
Assembling myself together, getting up,
I crouched further &
Somehow dragged to the office,
Hey stinky! Move on - were the day’s greetings,
Get away, You damn air pollution,
How I Felt completely out of service.
Washing up in Lavatory ,
Was of no help,
For all the muck, filth ,
& complementary odour,
the cleaner gave such a fierce killer look,
so terrorizing to the core,
no horror film had ever had my soul shook.
Decided to call the day off,
Much to everyone’s relief,
But reaching home –
Felt a distant belief.
Loaded then myself into a taxi
A Sniff here and sniff there,
And brain of the driver soon realized
That his Nose disparagingly has been jeopardized.
An Extra or two currency offer,
And heartening wails of olfactorily traumatized colleagues,
Pushed the brave cabbie to a sense of sacrifice,
Such unparalleled valour, triggered salutations,
Putting to culmination the community’s cries.
Delivered at my doorstep oh finally,
The doorbell I rung threatened ominously,
A fear hollowed inside me, once back,
For the unlucky chap who’ll respond,
It’s time… yeah for his heart attack.”