Blue Whale

Blue Whale is an internet game involving a series of 
tasks that end in suicide, invented by Philipp Budeikin. 

Blue Whale

It appears 
in Budeikin’s brain.
Its baleen plates will filter 
the worthless krill from society,
he envisages.
Swimming alone, 
it catches teens.

It challenges Varun 
in the ocean of dejection.
He takes on the tasks:
listens
to the lunatic music, 
climbs 
on a crane,
engraves 
a red whale 
on his arm 
with a pair of compasses…
On the fiftieth day, 
he undertakes 
the last task 
and falls into death 
from the top of his broken psyche. 

Baffling the whalers,
the blue whale swims 
with its mouth open.




First published in The Literary Hatchet (Pear Tree Press, US)

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