Small-town Blues

Spacious, shiny, new roads

are built in my city

to rent them for raw-markets

and automobile-stops.

But it doesn't bother me

as these roads can't take me to you;

and I hate it—

like I hate to be in my thirties.

Md Mehedi Hasan occasionally contributes to Star Literature. He teaches English at North Western University, Khulna.