How to Pick A Fight with Your Lover - Response to Nitoo Das's Poetry

Raise your haunches,
bare your fangs,
spread out your claws,
swallow your hopes,
trawl through the litter of
promises as hollow as a conch.

Erect a sceptical eyebrow,
curl your lips into a snarl,
dismiss disagreements with
the wave of a hand.

Spit out disappointments,
Spin up accusations,
Abandon the oars,
Tear up the sail,
Let the -'ship'
sink into the sand.