…troubled as he was, he had a finicky way of choosing things. And that’s exactly what he did. He wanted a way of death, a peculiar way of death for himself. He had eliminated hanging, shooting and death by poison. He knew he did not invent anything but was proud of his selection. He was standing on the top of the tallest building in the city. He thought of cherishing the moments he would fall down. Wind smashing his watery eyes as gravity does the work free of cost, he relived his fall many times before. This-he decided was the last time.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Drift
Sunday, January 10, 2010
FILTHY
I
Avatars of hypocrisy
And corrupted souls
Buildings and signage
Hurling abuses
And disrupting the axioms
Of civilization
The white collars
And suits and ties
In their shallow boots
Sculpting a false reality
And waiting for unimaginable
Shadow to be unveiled
The children of society
Molded in F tv clothes
And banging to the
Dead music without
Knowing the pretence,
Leave alone the meaning
II
For it’s not guns but money
Not mortars but politics
Not grenades but education
And today’s amended ethos
From mothers to daughters
And from fathers to sons
The never ending distance
Between loved ones
And the new god sitting
On the leather couch
Watching dead commercials
And exploiting humanity
And industries and corporates
Appeasing through
Visual obscenities and
Warming the air we breathe
And the water we drink
And the leaders of men
With no resolution
Sit to sort the global problems
With red & white wines
And bureaucracy making
Policy
For the man on the
Street with a poor
Wife and a poor kid
Begging for mercy from
Skeletons inside their
Mercedes
Reading the daily
And concerned about
Poverty
All that is filthy