“Imagining the flower-pot attacked it
The kitten flung the violets near and far
And yet, who knows? This morning, as I backed it,
My car was set upon by a parked car.”

—  Vikram Seth

Malefic Things from All You Who Sleep Tonight (Viking/Penguin India, 1990).

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