Sunday Poem By Jhilam Adhikary

Me on a Boat

Me and Zev on a boat,
And a loading screen in front of us,
Waiting and waiting for nothing
So many glitches storming down on us
Teams is an idiot,
Some understand, some don’t.

Me asking him to add me,
And he struggling for the link
Every minute counts,
The lobby will close in a blink.
The loading screen remains
As the dark clouds and the fog.

Now that so many days have passed
We know how to row in the mist,
But there is this one bastard pirate
Who keeps removing us,
And the biggest enemy of his
Is our little Deeptak.

Me and Onta on a boat,
Both confused,
Asking and poking each other
Not knowing what to do
Crs, glitches and misinformation
Do not go hand in hand.
Attendance is the biggest shark
In this lonely sea,
Our harpoon is time and punctuality
A broken spear though.
And the app stays useless
So no hope from it.

Me and my friends on a boat
We hardly talk during class
Occasional gaps and silence
And we steal a minute to mock
For we can’t pull the ear of Teams
All we can do is laugh it off.