Where Crocodiles Come Inside City Poem by Asit Kumar Sanyal

A river with reptiles bisects the Sanskari Nagari
Carries its entire polluted sewrerage water
Billons of notes drains out through sewage lines
But rain-water does not reach to that river.

The city becomes flooded in every monsoon
Crocodiles from river come to the bunglows
Through the underpass of rapid urbanisation
That brings humans and reptiles too close.

Natural flow of river is less in the river now
More of a shallow channel of sewage waters
Carries larze amount of non-veg food waste
Dumped by city's growing restaurants and bars.

People make additional storey for their safety
And shift up when flood water enters in colony
But says, crocodiles are part of their ecosystem
And do not treat them as dangerous enemy.

About 300 mugger crocodiles are in the river
The braves feed them meat at the ghats
Rescue and treat the badly injured crocs
In spite of madly hitting … by bricks and bats.

(Wild Flowers)