Intestinal Gas.3. Poem by Nabakishore Dash

We pray to God to bless us
and our offsprings to go upwards
in the ladder of success.
But those who have experienced
the agonizing pain, rumblings,
borborygmi of non-release of
gases via the anus must
be praying for daily downward
motion to keep their health in
the pink to achieve mental
and physical progress
with minimum distress.

Here is a 'downward' motion
that indicates our sound
mental and physical health.
When not released through
the last downward vent,
it leads to stomach pain,
lack of appetite,
consequent weakness,
decreased interest and vigour,
insomnia, hypertension and
may be cardiac troubles
so as to drain our gradually
accumulated wealth.

Sometimes I pass this gas
with the sound of a nuclear test.
Immediately my wife wakes up
from deep slumber and cautions
me to lessen the volume which
may end the sleeping solace of
my neighbours and their guests.

I try to convince her that my
health is at its best.
For information of my nears,
dears and hunter friends,
I was suffering, for the last two months,
from high blood pressure,
non-hunger, vertigo, motion sickness,
all due to lack of downward motion,
medicines specialists, neurologists,
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging of brain,
Vertebral column, ECG, Echocardiogram)
tried their best and the good news
for my colleagues and well wishers
is that I have recovered almost.