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    One Day I Flew Away

    Shaheena ChowdhuryBy Shaheena Chowdhury18 July 2025Updated:18 July 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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    One day I flew away

    And what did I see?


    Lamp posts plastered with election manifestos

    Crisping at the edges

    In the heat of the pre-monsoon sun

    Politics played second fiddle to the virus


    Roadside shutters opened

    To reveal aquariums

    Bettys and cories

    Minnows and mollies

    Feasting on snails and brine shrimp

    Oblivious to the infected street beggars

    Squatting on the pavement


    Slum dwellers queued behind

    The municipal pickup

    For rations of flour and potatoes

    Rice paddies defied the pandemic

    But crops couldn’t get

    Past lockdown patrols

    And spoiled in poorly kept silos instead


    Teachers stayed up till sehri time

    To watch Zoom tutorials

    Hours of staring at a screen

    Gave them headaches

    Even Vicks Vaporub couldn’t relieve


    The merry-go-round stood still

    The candy floss pole disappeared

    The fairground gathered windfalls

    “Stay home, stay safe”

    Cartoon Network’s new mantra


    Sturdy hands massaged spatchcocks

    With tandoori masala

    Even though the virus

    Was claiming lives

    Naan and kebab had to be ready

    For the iftar rush


    Bright orange spirals

    Sizzled in a cast iron wok

    Fasting customers scrambled

    For Hashem Mia’s famous jilapis

    Social distancing floated away

    In open sewers


    The tailor’s shears sat idle

    Threads unspent

    Bobbins untouched

    Who’s the culprit:

    Covid-19 or Aarong?


    The jhal muri wala gazed wistfully

    At clouds above

    The unusually quiet

    Shapla Chattar roundabout

    Business was bad

    Stolen guavas sufficed

    His starving family of five


    An expectant mother exhausted

    From sobbing all night

    Blood trickled down her thigh

    In the ambulance

    She helplessly waited

    For the inevitable

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