Don’t be scared, my little man-
Think I’m going to bite you?
Silly notion! Don’t you know
I have no strength to fight you?
I know the horns upon my head
Must seem a trifle shocking.
But butting pains my head, and so
They’re seldom used for knocking.
‘Well, well-I see you’re not convinced
By all that I’ve said,
It’s time I grabbed you by your legs
And knocked you on the head.
My wife and dozen kids and I
Believe it’s downright silly
To let escape a stupid man
Who’s scared, willy nilly’
Sukumar Ray’s poem translated from Bengali
by his son, filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
In this poem, an enormous devilish looking creature emerges from a rock to have this playful conversation with a Bengali babu. An illustration of the whole scene drawn by Sukumar Ray accompanies the poem.
Can be found in the book Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray
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‘Pursuing feeing girls with a lifted stick,
The naughty little boy
Battering a toy violin to pieces
To find whence the tunes came;
Throwing out of window-bars my favorite doll,
With all her pretty flimsy fineries.’
~Sukhalata Rao, Sukumar Ray's elder sister writing about her brother's childhood.
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