5 am

5 am,

bored very bored

not sleepy at all

not at all

The dharma bums became just another book

Bukowski was too old to excite me

Tenzin Tsundue was too much about refugee

i decided i wll have the darjeeling green tea

remembering what my neighbor said

“Green tea are for intellectuals”

So i decided to be an intellectual at 5 am

naked and ant bites all over my body

entered the kitchen

the basin was full with unwashed plates

i peeped insde the pressure cooker

something was spoilt

i cudnt fgure out...

i smelt it...yet i ddidnt know what was it

i didnt remember what i cooked two days back

but knew for sure it was rotten like hell

so rinsed the plates and pressure cooker

while the tea boiled

two little mouse came out

they too have decided to be an intellectual like me

It seemed

but i shooed them away..

with the pressure cooker lid

as im very particular about who else

are inetellectuals around me

and i sipped the tea standing in my balcony

flirting with the Sun-less- not-so dark sky

and believed “The Sun is a shameless Bitch”

as it comes up everyday .....