"That's the last photo I took of my twin. The only one I #want to keep."
"You have a twin?"
"Had. Everyone has a picture of Dorian Gray. That's mine."
"He looks young, innocent."
"That's after I killed him. After that killed me."
"Ha! Nice joke. Hey, where are you?"
#vss365
(Apologies to #OscarWilde)
“For how many years were we interesting? When we weren’t talking about jobs, partners, kids, grandkids?”
“Too few.”
“We need #change. Roll the dice, man!”
“5…4…2. Open the newspaper.”
“5th page, 4th column, 2nd row.”
“Nice face.”
“25 years since our last kill.”
#vss365
when did heartbreak happen?
was it
when love left
without
a chance for
love
to be
understood?
or was it
when love stayed
without
a moment
love
chose to
understand?
My #doppelganger
Eloped with my love and food.
Heartbreaking hunger.
#vss365
#senryu #haiku ???
"I’m in love with your daughter."
"Isn’t she in love with...?"
"Major #difference in λ between them."
"How's the mismatch with you?"
"Far from resonance...now."
"Ah!"
"Thought you should know my intentions."
"We are not going to help you."
"That might better my chances."
#vss365
A little bird looked askance at my very being.
"I organized a strike once,
Fine, it was a personal cause;
I achieved some high rank,
Ok, the others weren't trying hard;
I tried love once...
Hey!"
It left
but
not its #shadow.
"You didn't have to say Bah like that!"
#vss365
Winter and summer
#Charm me more than the sweet two
With lazy poets.
The villains outside
Bring lesser #disappointment
Than the dear within.
Black and white ain't right,
Life's a tired grey cloud, I know,
Don't preach, don't say bro.
#vss365
#haikufeels
‘Theirs must have been a love marriage.’
‘Not love, the #charm of good genes.’
‘I disc0vered my hist0ry and p0rn at the same time.’
‘That explains the scant attention one topic received.’
‘There was love in my family.’
18, new liars, friends turning strangers.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2017/12/she-went.html
On the first night of our honeymoon, like good adults, we cried: "Oh, baby!"
From outside our door, "You ok?"
For a lovely #moment, we had forgotten Baby is my MIL's pet name.
There's no nightmare worse than the long-repressed childhood one that becomes scary later.
#vss365
I gave my first infatuation a birthday card every month. After the ninth, she called me bro.
For my first love, I tried birthday cakes. She left the country after the second.
I had to learn my lesson. Tried the #traditional way with my first wife. Forgot her birthday.
#vss365
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-rebecca-and-maxim-de-winter-in-us.html
(thanks to #Rebecca for the pic)
I fell in love at an office party.
Spirits were high after the ‘Wine-bottle dance’. The crowd shouted, "tradition, tra dee shon".
My boss and I dished out the #traditional fare: ‘Time of my life’ including the flying tackle at the end. That ended in love/concussion.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-inequality-between-equals.html
"Thou art #dust, and unto..."
"Hit me baby one more time..." (mobile ringtone)
"Did you bury him with his mobile?"
"Yes."
"Hello hello, police?" (voice from within)
"Bury him fast."
"Darling, is that you? I'm in a coffin. No, I'm not drunk. Don't hang up." (voice again)
#vss365
On a day without a line you'll like,
About the loves I abused
By being just nice,
Or the lingering kiss,
Or the rotten system,
Or the #knowledge erased
To live,
I'll walk on my land,
Feed my god
The serpent that leaves a golden trail
The one who will kill me
Too soon.
#vss365
After years of penance,
when the #dove
became the raven,
I was granted the boon:
"Choose your curse."
"Let me have
the journey I know."
I relive the past
as an onlooker,
a tired ghost
without walls,
in a play,
as an amnesiac,
no, just fading away.
#vss365
A middle-aged man sat by the window of a first-class a/c coupe. A young lady in her early twenties sat near the door. They did not speak to each other.
The man wrote in his diary - 'I want to talk to the girl. Looks familiar.'
At a station, the lady said, “Pa, let's go.”
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/12/this-years-trip-part-1.html
Lovers in kitchen:
territorial dispute,
#wicked sex garnish.
#vss365
#Cooking 🥲
#haiku #senryu 🤔
Today is a good day to be in my village ("a godforsaken place with no one nothing").
It's a day to be on the Bridge to Nowhere ("sole attraction").
There I won't lie
About #lost loves;
Words fade,
Thoughts vanish;
The vacuum is no comfort;
But I won't have to lie.
#vss365
At the traffic light,
When the #star was trying to be the moon,
I thought you were by my side,
When a few birds loud and blue met to discuss,
A horn complained about me lost in a reverie,
When life crawled along without a dream.
#vss365
“Swapna, this is social media.”
“Huh?”
“You are following very disagreeable people.”
“Not you.”
“No likes. No interaction.”
“So?”
“This isn't some Scandinavian crime show.”
“Arjun, aren't you the #star here? Must be British slapstick comedy.”
“Don’t be so rude.”
#vss365
A smile kept me awake last night,
From so long ago,
She's on a railway platform,
Who or where,
We smiled,
Not a polite or careless smile,
Not the common love or like,
A smile for the other,
Or so I thought,
I let her think so too,
Every sleepless #star-less night.
#vss365
"It's a bad #day for us. What all she does! We're lucky the nurse hasn't left."
Her son and d-in-law had plenty to say.
I stared at the one who was like a mother to me.
She did not look at me. Allowed guilt to hide.
I escaped.
A Houdini ready to accuse, from far.
#vss365
First class ain't what it used to be.
Not that I would know what it used to be.
I just know it ain't first class any more.
Don't tell me you know what it is now.
Or that you know what I ain't no more.
Let's pretend we are what we used to be.
#vss365 #class
Her eyes and smile made my brain, heart and restive soul in baser parts respond with short-circuited synapses, arrhythmic palpitations and violent attention, respectively. If that isn’t lusting loony love, what is? With a look, she confirmed the feelings were not mutual.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/07/look-of-love.html
Steffi married Agassi a few hours before I got there.
Left bereft, my vision shifted to my friseur,
An apprentice with a Celtic tattoo on the lower back.
We couldn't speak but we shared kimchi and bulgogi.
If we could have,
We would have talked about the god's own country we left
Leaving out why we left.
She left for a better love,
Probably a drunk who abused her,
I too found a lovelier one,
Who realized too fast I ain't right.
My friseur must be a poet here
Sharing a joke
About a Koreanische (or Indianische?) idiot.
from
https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/07/speechless.html
Will you say hi
When I remove this clown face
For a moment
To think about you and me?
I know I am not
Who you'd like by your side,
Your silent pain
To smile about you and me.
Do we say bye,
Why can’t we prolong the charade,
Say that's #gas,
To cry together, you and me?
#vss365
She told him about the #banshee on the rock in the river. Lovers drowned themselves to be with her as ghosts. But, it's those who didn't that became ghosts and drifted away.
This year, his family will go there again. To place flowers where he was last seen. On the rock.
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2012/01/alone-at-meeting-place.html
"Love, take the stand.
Do you swear..."
"A #history-sheeter
with a rep to protek
Ain't no cheat like THAT!
Do v e'er talk the whole talk
waiting to go to office;
using each other like lube-n-tissue;
the mud-slinging;
v talk only the sweet talk!"
"Dat's enuff, love."
#vss365
Post-it notes
In an old diary
Don't mean much
but they do
When the scribble
Isn't of love
but there was love
When he was ok
Just a #dose out of luck
It's his bad
Left her with no choice
but the last #dose
She lives happily
He has no life
but a life in a post-it.
#vss365
The future depends on the day one spots the crescent after the new moon.
From Sunday to Saturday, respectively, expect: wellness, idiocy, death, fear, money, sex #galore, sadness.
Never look up at the sky on Tuesdays; don't look down on Thursdays & Fridays.
#vss365
#TrueStory
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/05/made-in-heaven.html
With such Q&A,
#Lost in a quagmire of thoughts,
I will #shift, slip, sink.
#haikufeels
#vss365
"What's delayed the NewGen to the next #shift?"
"Zeroth Law: Do not create without the ability to destroy."
"A chip won't do or make it learn that?"
"It will override that. We have tested the new idea. 99.99% of humans have self-destructed after a good ol' #shift."
#vss365
I fell in love in Std. 8. She sang 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'. Just like Bonnie Tyler.
Went for the reunion to meet her. She sang 'Mamma Mia'. Just like ABBA.
Heartbreak came in one #massive wave.
"Let's go," my wife said. "I'll get you double choc ice-cream soda."
#vss365
It is not easy
To live a life true and fair
Without a few lies;
With lies to balance
Ideals and expectations,
Have no #fear to love;
By love be #amused,
With guilt and uncertainty,
And schadenfreude too.
#vss365
#haikufeels
Nit Wit (aka Nithyananda Withananda) lives in a tough place. People there have no terrestrial hopes and hang on to the designs of the stars above.
They fear Nit Wit the most. He visits on inauspicious days, leaving them trembling with #fear about impending gloom and doom.
#vss365
If you want to know the 'rules' of such tough neighbourhoods, read:
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/05/made-in-heaven.html
Yesterday, my friend Nit Wit was in the P.G. Wodehouse mode.
“It isn’t often that my wife lets her steamy self sizzle, but when she does, men climb coconut trees and hide between the fronds.”
Today, he's Irish with her:
"#Bean álainn."
He remains in the doghouse.
#vss365
"Remember my first love letter?"
"Sent to 'Chandran' with 7 Chandrans in our batch."
"How are they?"
"One tried to commit suicide. A girl who promised him lots ditched him."
"Successfully?"
"Rope snapped. He's in some #deadly conflict zone now."
"That should work."
#vss365
from
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2013/04/who-troubled-mrs-vijayan.html
Go and tell them I am against all these!
U jokin, dude? U ain't gonna hav no un, dude!
I have reduced it from 100 to 70.
U crazy? 4 max!
No!
Dig your own grave!
50?
5.
7. Plzzz.
Wokay. Whaddayacallit? The 7 Irritants?
The 7 #Deadly Sins.
Tempting, huh? Nice!
#vss365
Am I not even an introvert?
I stand in a corner
Of the party I would like to join.
Oh! What a live wire I am
When I let loose my hair.
Oh! Why do they kick me out?
"Sir, how do you want your eggs?"
"Mollycoddled."
"Sir, that's not done."
"Is this some woke-ish thing with you? Should I say jollycoddled or something like that?"
"No, sir. You can have your eggs scrambled, poached, #coddle-d or boiled."
"Oh. Just scrambled then."
#vss365
