Im Po See Be Lay
--- Noosa Chakroborty
Why do they say
Nothing is impossible
Because that is wrong
Only a few things are possible
Have you ever seen
An ant eating a crocodile?
Or have you ever been
Inside a tornado and got you alive?
Did you ever count
All the leaves in a tree?
Or did you ever memorize
How many hairs are there on a sheep?
Notice how you really can't
Jump off Mt. Everest and survive
Notice that in this century
No dinosaur is alive
Flowers don't grow money
Trees don't too
The Taj Mahal isn't made out of honey
But I really wish it could
Do books come alive?
Do children eat vegetables all day?
Do monkeys hate bananas?
Does a girl turn into a boy?
And nobody ever saw
Albert Einstein in 2001, so, say
Why did they ever say that
Nothing is Im Po See Be Lay?
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What about spaghetti
That could talk and jump and play?
What about a night
Without any day?
And you missed a movie
That right this second came alive
You also missed Bugs Bunny
Who shook your hand and cried
Diya Sarkar