To Whom It May Concern:

This is to certify that this man is

A half-backed nut flew off

From a disused frying pen,

A black pebble shot forth

From an un-owned sling,

A broken eggshell

Fallen off from an abandoned nest.

He is equipped with claws

Horns, tails, hoofs and hunger.

He is an anti-anti-social element

Constantly throwing up words

Into the degradable social garbage.

This is to certify that his twisted mind

Sees vulture picking on his eyeballs

Dead donkeys smiling with absolute satisfaction

A woman dragging her husband with a single strand of hair

And a headless man digging nine layers of holes singing

‘From the ashes of bombed words

May arise a future planted on an open book.’

This is to further certify that this man

Is indeed a white crow with a black hat.

He may be a danger to himself

And all those who may touch and feel him.

Let everyone be warned that this character

Had to be released from our claws

Since we failed to control his contagious views

That has already infected some of our good brothers.

A day before he was let off, he scribbled –

‘I see a wingless vulture fly and

A five-legged rabbit dig through a boulder.

A dead man staring into the horizon

To count the stars winking at him.

A poet with a shovel in his hands

Digging for frozen earthworms

A monk who lost his robes says

‘Order is chaos. Chaos is order.’

To a five-star general who is being

Thrown into the nine-layered hole.

And a headless man ecstatically sings,

‘From the debris of hung-up hopes

May arise a future hooked on a pen.’

This is to conclude that this character has no place

In our harmonized, sanitised, categorised and advertised world.

Our suggestion – Shun him, pun him, mock him, dock him

And if possible banish him.