At night, his table
comes alight
with
a bottle of bourbon.
His left hand goes straight
to feel
his balls.
The rambling of the crickets
nutty in the backdrop
passes around darkness.
The balls are there
despite his desk-job
to call home to home
and sell knives
that can slice
any madman’s domestic silence.
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Kushal Poddar
Painting: Pablo Picasso
Edited the online magazine ‘Words Surfacing’.
Authored ‘The Circus Came To My Island’ (Spare Change Press, Ohio), “A Place For Your Ghost Animals” (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), “Understanding The Neighborhood” (BRP, Australia), “Scratches Within” (Barbara Maat, Florida), “Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems” (BRP, Australia) and “Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems” (Hawakal Publishers, India)
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