Is Time #elastic?
Ne'er thought it would hit me
Again.
Restless and insomniac
And happy
Urging the sun to rise sooner
Tongue-tied and anxious
Wake up wake up I beg
To hear that laugh
Before you say
What a kid you are
I bury myself in you
How close we are
Forever.
#vss365
"Searching for an #oasis
In the middle of a tropical forest.
Story of my life."
"A, will you please plz stop writing?"
"Swaps, that's my antidote to love. Never failed."
"Is there a woman
Who can tolerate you and
Your writing? Alas!"
"You are nearly there, woman."
#vss365
“Is the door closed?” she asked.
“Who cares?” I said.
It was a #blur after that. There were corny lines.
“I am not going to love you.”
“Me too...”
I am back in her life.
And I do not really know why.
I am not sure why she has accepted me.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/02/virgin-territory.html
I write
To #sublimate
Something
Into some other thing
I could call nothing
To feign
Some emotion
Without experience
To lose
Track
Of what I write
And
Wait
For my love,
My reader,
To misunderstand
And give my life meaning.
#vss365
"Class, use the word #escutcheon in a short poem. Swapna?"
"Fancy #escutcheon.
But, the lock's easy to pick.
Matters of the heart."
"Debatable. Arjun?"
"Ma'am, I take the Fifth."
"Why?"
"Do you want my poem on the configuration of adult pubic hair."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
Biopic: 3 scenes of 'The End' (with bg music)
1. The Beautiful South: 'Rotterdam'
Lady Luck's #caprice?
"She's brain dead. Say your goodbye."
Last touch. I love you.
2. R.E.M.: 'Everybody Hurts'
Indifference hurts.
Authors' #caprice spoil a tale.
Marriage and divorce.
3. Johnny Cash: 'God's Gonna Cut You Down'
Love, when I vanish,
It will be to love truly.
#Capricious promise.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
When we meet,
Let it be on a fine day,
A far-fetched #eventuality I know,
To have a chance to say
All that I should hide,
So that I am true,
Worthy of you,
To let trouble brew
And when I self-destruct,
Don't turn to look
Like you did in that dream
Of love mistook.
#vss365
#memory
#auldlangsyne
"Is your Hindi whatever over?"
"It's a movie."
"Whatever. Can I change the channel?"
"Why didn’t you say you want to watch something else? Instead of sitting there scowling."
"Enjoying your company."
"Yeah, right."
"Are you interested in going for a movie tomorrow? Morning show. With me."
"Which English movie?"
"The Hindi one with Govinda?"
"Serious?"
"Yes."
"Not whatever?"
"There’s a time and place for Hindi. Definitely not when Morse is showing."
"Why don’t you sit with your Morse tomorrow too?"
"I will. At night. So, date on?"
"Govinda whatever?"
"Yes."
"Ok."
Like moths to a flame, we went to the closed school in Simanggang every holiday.
We knew what would happen whichever game we played there. To nearly all.
No one is complaining. The old #stock of kids is not living up to expectations.
Why wasn't I chosen and altered?
#vss365
#vss365
Last night, I went to a strip club
and
it was hot like bloody Hell
the One on the pole
all black in the eyes
or
was it that One on my lap
a tale of entangled tails
hissed
aren't you the one who killed love
for existential #synthesis,
we give them the best time,
in a dungeon with no doors
placed on an ice block
it was a game with no safe word
even death could not save me
from the cold nothingness.
#vss365 #flinch
What is this flimsy life without a prank or two?
Do not #flinch when you are the victim.
Those words are from the One above (or below).
I am just the Messenger (in limbo) for jokers.
1/3
#vss365 #rein
I was 19. Filled my wallet with strips of paper. Went to a fair. Waited to be the target of a pickpocket. He wasn’t very good. Followed him to an alley. Heard him curse.
Tried to #rein in the vain exultation.
Stepped out of the shadows. Grinned at him.
2/3
#vss365 #conspire
Now, I follow serial-killers.
The last one reached his target's house to find the victim murdered. With his MO.
Divine forces must have #conspired for such a prank, he must have thought.
I made sure the police caught him in the act. No pun intended.
3/3
"My folks are looking out for a guy for me."
"Shall we tell them we are in love?"
"Cheap #style, partner. Love marriage is for those with nothing to steal."
"I'll register on online matrimony site."
"Any good negotiator?"
"Uncle."
"Mom will demand quid pro quo."
#vss365
when I wrote this love poem I knew
you will not read it
ignore it's towhomsoeveritmayconcern
admit the old tropes bore you silly
let's burn this poem you will say
oh let's use it for ohwhat
how can our love reach full #potential
if we don't read minds or crystal gaze
#vss365
'2 Sides of The Coin' offers the better alternative.
40% of our revenue comes from politics. Every politician wants to have an own group. Language, religion, race, ethnicity are so easily #exhausted.
What we do is to make today’s kid-of-the-soil tomorrow’s foreigner.
#vss365
For more details about the business:
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/two-sides-of-coin.html
When the leaves are gone,
The #power of the sublime
Will turn revengeful.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
(Dusk-ThiruOnam 📷 mine)
Don’t be at #doorway
with broom in hand, they insist.
You looked so happy.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"If Newton had discovered the Philosopher's Stone, humanity would have blessed."
"We missed the #chance to get an #article titled '#Gold is not a safe haven' from the Chancellor of the Exchequer."
"Why have they called the bouncers?"
"Well, we are in a jewelry shop."
#vss365
Vishnu was still #conscious. He was curled up like a foetus.
The brute gave Vishnu’s chest another kick. He picked up a heavy rock, squatted on one knee, ready to crush Vishnu's skull.
"Enough!"
That order came from behind the crowd.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/11/flower-girl.html
Writing's tough (for me).
1, make the list. Birds, trees, love, war, death, loss, whatnot.
2, cross out everything. Don't copy, stupid.
3, stare at the blank page. The genius act.
4, post that.
5, stare at the four walls (while they tighten the straightjacket).
6,
smell the ink still in the air,
remember that,
that which was there with this then,
that #eludes me now, and this,
that lovely stink of sweaty us.
#vss365
When you asked,
Doubt the Jack-in-the-box and Suspicion
Tied my shoelaces together,
Browsed the #past, begged AI to crystal gaze,
And
When you were at the door,
I must have asked what you asked,
Do you love me
or
Was it rhetorical
or
A statement,
say,
Get lost?
#vss365
A bright blue morning.
Brings wafts of #pungent incense
By your head, my love.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
Why do I write?
It's like love.
For me.
Not for you.
Perhaps.
It's for #sentient myself.
Not for robot me.
Cheap over-the-counter love gives me no high.
I've killed for it.
Lived with guilt.
Not boasting.
Not recommending it either.
Given another chance,
it would still be the same.
Perhaps.
And why does this look like a poem.
When it is not.
That's for cheap love.
#vss365
"Should we try a threesome?"
"Alone is best for this. Two is an #audacious challenge. Three would be suicidal."
"Good, aren't we, in this murder business?"
"Thx to love & possessiveness. That itself rules out 3."
"Right. Means to an end will become end of the means."
#vss365
"Appa, what was the best time with Amma?"
"Every moment."
"Appa! What was the really really best?"
"I had a night out with some pals. Drunken #vigil, we used to call it. That night, I knew I was with the wrong company. Left before dawn. Showered. Went to Hotel Rajesh at 6 when they opened. Got a heavy dose of filter coffee. Knocked at her door. We kissed. She said, nice coffee. Ha! Then..."
"Then?"
"Then, you happened."
#vss365
Why do we compare Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys,
Or The #Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man,
Is it because we are one and the same,
Or you are better than me to remember,
Or should I chase you away, my intruder,
From the silence and darkness of this long long wait?
#vss365
"What are you doing?"
"Writing."
"In the middle of..."
"Just a minute."
"It's our first night."
"Not the last night."
"It could be your last word."
"Exactly. Don't wait.
#Pummel the blank page with thoughts.
Domesticity!"
"Bah!"
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
Divine vision or #mystical inspiration or whatever it might be, it went against the guiding principles of the school and probably against the ethos of the society.
The Principal decided that the student and his sketch should go.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/06/because-of-rain.html
I've been a beast,
this saint confesses:
not a caress
only roughness,
silence
& fussy deafness,
crude talk
& the excuse of old pastime,
chasing #rainbows
with rotten principles & outrage,
scoff
& make it all your fault,
crack the mirror
hell's too good for this devil.
#vss365
Love's been gone for too long,
I wouldn't know how I should be-
Scowl in sun-kissed love-nests
Or #laugh in dark godforsaken alleys?
Will these cold eyes find a smile,
Will I swallow the cynical wit,
Do I know how to touch and kiss?
Quite sure it ain't like swimming or cycling.
But then, that too is strange to me,
If it comes in deep water or on two wheels,
There's going to be a valid excuse
To escape from the kiss of life.
#vss365
There’s no poetry in my office.
It's 10 feet by 10 feet, a tight pack
Of 4 places – for me & another
And 2 love-birds that coo elsewhere.
I watch the ants perfect a straight march.
I've named the #spider in the left corner.
There's plenty to do till the other arrives...
#vss365
from
https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2011/03/office.html
Alone, wandering, searching in the vast expanse-
The air spoke past’s agony- the night before dawn.
I was not alone for I could hear a gentle sobbing-
Another lonely heart; breaking #rules, the like did attract.
#vss365
(from 'The Story of Swapna' circa early 90s)
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/07/his-story-searching-and-finding-1991.html
They caught their breath.
"Do you smoke after sex?"
"Never checked."
"Can I say I love you?"
"Depends."
"Lifelong bondage?"
"Nope."
"Unconditional care with unlimited #sass?"
"Ok."
"Good."
"Well, say it."
"What?"
"Pass the ciggie."
"I love you."
"Me too."
#vss365
Which #angel scattered diamonds upon this field –
O wicked one! Why do you #charm me so?
Life seems so light with its wish to join you,
But the gentle air alone caresses and beckons.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/last-time-i-wrote-about-love.html
The total eclipse at noon, wind, rain, lightning, thunder, swaying trees, cries for help-
all that added to the #charm of the danger within.
He entered the bedroom. Closed the door and knelt. The figure by the window smoked a beedi.
"Lovely, right?"
"Yes, Mistress."
#vss365
'Remember Sherin's suicide note?'
I read aloud that comment on her post.
Got a #scowl in return.
Found nothing about that.
Should not have disturbed the ghosts in unmarked graves. The boy under her Jeep. Her cousin's unsuitable affair. The disposed others.
When I say love you
What do I choose to forget?
Your sins or myself?
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
I was a king for six months.
In Beluru, not even a village then. In my 1st school, a hut with a moat of mud.
An imp with #mischief in her eyes raised a flutter in my chest. Could have made her mine if I knew I was king. I was a fool instead. Tried hard to be like her.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/12/when-i-was-king.html
"Dragon Chicken always makes me cry," I said.
She nodded with #tear-filled eyes.
The kids did not seem embarrassed.
Farewell was a quick affair.
The kids had the same expression when we got into the taxi. That look that says we will never be together ever again.
#vss365
from my short story 'Never Together Ever Again'
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2019/12/never-together-ever-again.html
I am in love:
To say that
(to myself,
to find #purpose)
Exhumed all the lies
Guilt and self-preservation
Buried deep in amnesiac bog.
In that same space will rot
All that was called love
In an imagined past,
To confess this
(to you,
to live again):
I love you.
#vss365
After the men left for #spiritual pastures, Aswathy said to Sudarshana, “That Sreekumar...there’s something troubling him. I think he is the kind who goes for the other woman.”
“And, his other one wonders about his another one,” Sudarshana said.
“Which one are you?”
#vss365
from a long short story I wrote in Berlin (kept me busy during the Christmas-Silvester break of '00):
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/4-deal.html
I should not write poetry
before the Sunday biriyani lunch.
I should not write poetry
before making love to you.
Don't ask me
why the biriyani comes before that.
The operative part is
I should not write poetry.
#SundayMorningThoughts
Our demons revisited us often. Somewhere along the way, we married. The kids turned out ok. Despite us.
We thought we would #mellow as empty nesters.
We laid to rest one insecurity. We were going to stick with each other till the end.
Maybe, that’s when it started.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/12/when-it-ended.html
I am the child of your glance,
it is these depths that lure,
Blink, hold on no more,
let the tear slide along,
from
furious rapids,
scorned depths,
love unrealized,
#innocence r@ped,
shattered mind,
bleeding heart,
let the tear slide along,
it may carry
a little pain.
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/sketch-of-you-and-me.html
"You love me," I said.
"You too love me," she replied.
#Contrarian fling.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
#vss365 (ok, it's not very short)
"Is this the little kid I carried?" she sounded just like Topol in 'Fiddler on the Roof'.
"How now brown cow?"
"This is not the time for Benny Hill," she shifted to Michael Corleone.
"Okie. Wassup?"
"My kid's in love."
"That’s lovely."
"And having sex."
"Come on, that’s better than depression and loneliness."
"That's #deviant. It should be banned outside marriage."
"Why should parents spend lots on a wedding for people to have sex?"
"That’s a parent's right. Eeew! Thinking about it gives me the creeps."
"Move with the times. Who is the lucky one?"
"Your kid."
"What the hell! Yuck! How can they? We should get them married."
"They are not interested."
"Tradition! Tra dee shon!"
We did the wine-bottle dance to drown our sorrow in sweat and tears.
How can I forget those times
When you found comfort
Lying on top of me
#Taffeta over plain old rag
I practised for such moments
The eyes, the touch, the words
There's no malice or deception
Isn't that what we do
To look good in any way
You too did well, my love
#vss365
Is that
a #cummerbund
or a tummy tucker,
and keds
for a black-tie affair?
Is it all
for love,
desperate
distraught
disaster?
Be yourself,
Be free,
Or flee,
Don't slurp,
Oh don't be you.
Jokes aside,
It's serious business,
Buy the asset,
Hedge well,
Trade or invest?
#vss365
A 54-year-old billionaire says he committed 2 murders 39 years back.
He started as a tea-seller. We use his peculiar #masala in every dish, not just tea.
"Can't get enough bodies to make that," he apologizes.
Netizens have come out in support under the hashtag #UseMe.
#vss365
"Hardship is the #prism through which our light gets to show all its colours."
"Arj, stop!"
"Swaps, I have got 98 'thoughts'. Need one more."
"For what?"
"To be named Swami Arjunananda."
"If your thoughts can be numbered, so are your days."
"Ah!"
"Now, get lost."
#vss365
My shrink suggested a joint session.
"Gone cuckoo?" I said.
The other entered the room saying, "Kids! Pets! Definitely the devil's work!"
It was love at first sound. One's #hamartia became a virtue.
No more sessions for us. Madly in love, the rest seems less crazy.
#vss365
She knew how to make him squirm. Shower him with praise.
She poked the dagger of attention at his Achilles #heel. Liberally sprinkled the salt of affection on that wound. Went on with her eulogy.
His visage resembled a fresco with scenes from Torquemada’s inquisition.
#vss365
from an old short story of mine 'The Woman':
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-woman.html
"He's nice and understanding. Has he done something bad?"
"Really want to know?"
"Yes."
"He's a serial killer of tree-choppers."
"If you want to take their #space, yours should be taken. I too will go after that lot. After the waste-dumpers."
"Made for each other."
#vss365
"I love you.
I can't.
I can still feel your touch, Sonia."
(Slap)
"Ouch!"
"You were talking in your sleep."
"Soliloquy?"
"Dialogue."
"A #vagary of AI."
"Who is Sonia?"
"Sonia?"
"Dream of people you know."
"Won't you feel jealous?"
"Me?"
"You are human."
"You are not."
#vss365
When we shared daydreams,
Why did you lie-
Mischievous or was it foreplay?
If only I still had more than it seems.
When we tried not to be an #enigma,
Why did you insist I lose the other we-
Possessive or was it lost love n lust?
If only I still had all that's stigma.
#vss365
"These ladies loved you."
"Not love, Ma'am. Attraction, perhaps. Eventually an embarrassing thought. It was I who loved them. In love with them."
"Then, why did you kill them?"
"Love's #progenitor
And sentinel is sweet death.
Pluck the lovely bloom."
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
It was a hectic day. I had chosen too many #parallel lives.
As usual, my body went to office.
During a presentation, I fumbled at two points.
Two other lives exerted their influence – first, making love to Ann; and second, the fight with my nemesis, my twin.
#vss365
from one of my few sci-fi short stories (it's not a genre I enjoy reading):
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/12-31-3010.html
Yama's #susurrus
Soothes souls. For the living dead,
Clarion call for change.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
have you married? she asked.
(have? not are? is it a #primordial urge?)
widower and divorced, i said.
(right order?)
a murderer plagued by guilt, she said.
(thought)
better story other way around, she added.
(yawned)
once shy twice bitten, i said.
(in an empty room)
#vss365
In loneliness company made, in silence a tune to rouse,
In gloom a smile to blossom, in dying life to be astride.
In pain did descend dearly into depths too black – reason too late –
Too late – fiery lines #slash upon lighter blue as a growing strain.
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/oddity-iv.html
"Swaps, it's our old gang."
"I could tolerate them when they admitted their class, caste and religion decided all. Now, they say love gave #shape to everything. People who forget their sins are monsters."
"Idiots."
"Us."
"With too little love, it shows."
"Shut up!"
#vss365
They shared that scene in early light; listened to the same birdsong; felt nipples stiffen as the fresh cool touch of chilly morning air caressed naked #skin; and, breathed in air with a tinge of eucalyptus.
They looked at each other before going inside to another life.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-tellers-sabbatical.html
"Bruised, scarred,
which balm will ease you,
which hand refused,
the silence shatters,
which word would bind
that wishes no longer
to be whole."
"Swaps, don't laugh."
"If you have been using such words to be a knight in shining armour, it's no wonder you are #single."
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/10/sketch-of-you-and-me.html
When love was snatched,
Tried to say "Pfft,
#Splinter can cause
More lasting pain."
That and other
Weak barricades
Crumbled to dust
With first #sunbeam.
#vss365
Do you believe the #vision before you
when life seems sublime,
graced by whoever's above,
caressed by sweet love,
or
when life is the usual,
screwed by the corrupt,
without water or power,
or
when there's black nothingness,
with too much past too little future?
#vss365
That turn in the path. The tree house.
He could still see what his young eyes saw then.
The man peeing behind a tree. Grey hair, prim and proper. Half-sweater over shirt, well-ironed pant, polished shoes. Stern eyes staring at the young boy. A #predator eyeing a prey.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-tellers-sabbatical.html
11 minutes past midnight. I'm in the doghouse.
Because I called her a #narwhal.
Why did she google?
"Corpse-whale?"
I too googled then.
"See. It symbolizes uniqueness, mystery, freedom, and intuition."
"Get out."
"Can I finish my pizza?"
#vss365 can be so life-altering.
"Are you calling me a chameleon?"
"Swaps, why can't you be romantic for three seconds?"
"With you, Arj?"
"Ah."
"A seal?!"
"I said:
Love is a #selkie,
Could be mine if I knew how.
Calm temperament."
"Oh! You want me to be that. Bloody patriarchy!"
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"I saw a #wraith-like version of you coming out of our son's room. Wearing your nightwear."
"That's your son's living together partner."
"Why is she here? Why did you give her that? They can't do it here. Even we don't, do we?"
"Come here, old man. Let them be safe."
#vss365
"Can he stay with your mother?"
"Is your mother ok with that? Has she forgiven him?"
"No. Never. On that topic, #clarity is her middle name."
"Agree with her. He's cheated her as long as I've been alive."
"He doesn't have much time. Let him be where he wants to be."
#vss365
Herd #immunity-
Why did we choose wrong target?
Against peace. Not war.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
The scene would have made Van Gogh cut off his right ear or Wordsworth prance on the vale like a senile seven-year-old. Such a setting is fine when you enjoy solitude or #soporific matrimony. Many brave men before me have fallen from grace on such a scene, I knew.
My head was tilting to the right and hers to the right too, ready for a long and tender kiss (as per philematologists' decree).
Without going on my knees, I crooned to that amazing lady, “Will you marry me?”
She replied, “Enschuldigung, ich verstehe nicht (Sorry, I don’t understand).”
I knew enough German to translate but I did not.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/09/will-you-marry-me.html
In the fight of '83, the neighbour had the support of some. We fought alone.
Another neighbour, the rich one eyeing both our properties, egged us on.
Gentian violet #dissolved in fish washing water was used.
I was at the receiving end.
Married their daughter in '03.
#vss365
She was a school teacher. My first semester in college. On the 5 am bus from Pilani to Delhi.
Even before Loharu, we began confiding. The comfort of strangers? We wanted to trust someone.
Scared. Sharing troubles can be misunderstood.
No names to rupture the #sutured.
#vss365
"Arjun, stop wailing.
She is dead. And without you,
In a better place."
"Is that a #senryu,
Or a cruel #elegy?
Succinct truth cuts deep."
"How about a movie?"
"The Omen, Swaps. She shaved my head once. Tattooed the mark of the beast."
"$9.99?"
"Funny Valentine."
#vss365
For the kids,
A #selcouth postprandial tale:
"We faced the worst demons
To have the bare minimum,
She had four brothers,
Who would have put me in ICU
Because they were there to do that,
I was on her balcony every night,
Not for love,
For friendship..."
#vss365
#truestory
"They are Trouble," a priest said when we were born.
"Irritating twins with #echolalia," teachers complained.
In our 20s, police tried to pin a dozen murders on us. But, "Which one?"
We shouldn't have fallen in love with twins with the sobriquet Copycat Black Widows.
#vss365
He has no reason to live nor die
He has no #karma nor bhakti to guide
He gathers pain from every corner
Searching for some way, some answer...
When one fears not death
Can one be mortal
And love, and dream,
And live, and pray...
#vss365
from
https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2009/08/scavenger.html
Apart from the stunning view, the room had an #additional intrigue: a photo gallery.
On two walls, photos of the rural urban divide.
On the 3rd, a photo of a corridor in an old house, sunlight creeping in reluctantly, a small footprint imprinted on the dark red floor.
#vss365
from an old short story of mine 'Like You and Me' (where Shokie meets her nemesis):
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2020/11/like-you-and-me.html
She read the poster in front.
‘Massage, spa, infinity pool, discounts for enema, purgation, vomiting, spiritual and physical rejuvenation, bring out the old you, become the new you.’
"Is this the spiritual #conversion that's going to save us?"
"Fantasy Island 2.0."
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/05/reunion.html
Her companions always made her parents very uncomfortable. The last one was an insurance agent.
He tried to sell to them an insurance #product which
‘assured kids a happy future, and promised a hefty bonus if the parents met with an untimely demise in the 3rd year’.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-troubled-mrs-vijayan.html
Marriages are made in heaven. We, at Premsucks, create that heaven.
'Ideal partners at an impressionable age': that's not vacuous #promotion.
Take my case. Pa chose Rocky after she floored me with a left hook.
"Her innocent look after the deed decided it," Pa said.
#vss365
The visitors' exit was sullen and hasty.
“What did I do?”
“You didn’t give them what they want.”
“I am new here. They are supposed to give.”
“Is that how it works in the city?”
“Sure. Give and take."
“Do you get any visitors?”
“No, but the principle holds in any #place."
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2016/10/bumpkin.html
Her companions always made her parents very uncomfortable. The last one was an insurance agent.
He tried to sell to them an insurance #product which
‘assured kids a happy future, and promised a hefty bonus if the parents met with an untimely demise in the 3rd year’.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-troubled-mrs-vijayan.html
