My dear #vss365 pals,
I'm on a vacation to nowhere.
It's not like before. With every face stuck to a screen, there's less chit-chat.
But then, isn't creation some kin of necessity?
Alas! Without alert witnesses, it's a bore to stick a dagger for a #rufous scene.
Yours,
A.
The long summer of '23 reminded me
of when we were lost and Nature was #livid,
insomnia a tranquilizer,
death an irritation,
some died, more were killed,
memories were erased,
the trudge through dusty mirage,
the wait for the dark cloud,
the illusion called love.
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"I love you."
"Are you an imbecile by nature or by nurture?"
"Huh?"
"That's the topic for my seminar. Take politicians. Blame the junta if they stand for election twice. That's nurturing an imbecile..."
"Did you hear what I said?
"Your statement on #lust...Show more
(The "Show more" link has been deactivated because the user has defaulted on his blue tick payments.
To know more about love/lust, someone should pay.)
"Arjun, you first."
"As per Simmon,
it's a fruit
or a colour,
Well,
much ado about nothing."
"Out. Swapna?"
"I wish we could be
One reading this love poem,
Blushing #bright #persimmon."
"Swapna!!! That's my love poem to you. O traitor!"
"You two! Out!"
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#haikufeels
Murder isn’t uncommon in Heaven.
That's because one can't have a #bone to pick with another there, literally or figuratively.
When one’s enemies have a good life even there, that’s just too much to take.
Hell has no such provocations. Sinners don’t procrastinate.
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A #bumblebee’s day-
Busy probing private parts.
My life sans the sting.
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#haiku #senryu ?
First day after lockdown,
We were in office before dawn,
We changed in the lift, superheroes,
Raju in his wife’s #foxy underwear,
Sandy commando, ol' wfh habit,
We left late, stood alone in the park,
Pets and kids happy without us,
Back home, we learned to smile.
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Coffee & Eulogy
"Here lies a nobody
whose words
lie somewhere-
a #charcoal drawing
left in the rain."
"Really?"
"I know, it's a drag!"
"More coffee, please.
Keep it brief. Say,
Here lies a nobody.
Period."
"Huh?"
"Sugar, please.
Just for me.
Not for the dead."
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"I love you."
"Pfffttt."
"Swapna!"
"Ma'am, Arjun's face is going through all shades of vibgyor. Now, it's #olivine."
"Ma'am, those three words have done worse to sterner men."
"You two aren't right for Romeo and Juliet."
"Shakespeare rarely uses those three words!"
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To our unborn child let's
describe the mushroom cloud,
or how we choose the good wars;
but when we are bored stiff,
let's be honest and scowl,
and make love to fantasies;
let's be what we should be,
a saint in joker's garb
or vice versa, an old tale.
"I love the colours you have chosen."
"Smaragdine. Our reading room.
Sarcoline. Bathrooms.
Glaucous. Bar.
Gamboge. Guest room.
Falu. Murder room.
#Timberwolf. Cold storage.
And, this is our bedroom. Vantablack."
"Chooooo. Naughty you."
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I should have practised more. A month is too long a gap.
I left a few drops of #butterscotch ice-cream on the scene.
Two scoops with a topping of blood straight from the heart. Bloody Heartthrob Mary, I have the patent on that.
This one was not strapped right.
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Sherbet as #Bordeaux,
Rose apples as strawberries--
Scene for first young kiss.
Byuk, did we say then,
Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, what-not,
#Depressed years away.
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#haikufeels
we were naked
and we could have been ready for each other
but we chose
to think of flaws
and the irrelevant past
never the #present nor our future
quite insecure
we were naked
and we closed our eyes to beauty
and we chose
disappointment not misery
just disappointment
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We are made for each other.
(Clichéd? Don't yawn.)
There's a small but manifest flaw.
She hates the thing that makes me love her.
It has to go, she insists.
There's no point reasoning with her about that.
I would have no idea about love without that.
So be it.
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He tried to exorcise all the demons within, escape from the months of self-imposed thralldom.
He read the warning, ‘Smoking kills. Tobacco causes cancer.’ He lit a cigarette. He sat motionless, watching the tip of ash #grow. Loneliness kills. Solitude causes emptiness.
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Sorry, once again. Just one of those days when I have to rely on old stuff.
This is from a travelogue in the form of stories:
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-tellers-sabbatical.html
Only idiots #forgive!
Call me the Count of Monte Christo!
If only my Faria had a fortune for me!
If only I could escape from this gaol!
O my Mercedes, I just can't wait
To cut your jugular,
And that of your dear hubby's too!
Forgive?
Ha!
Guard! Your whip tickles!
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"#Baffled??? Love-sign on tree?!!
That's to kill time, waiting! Not
To #communicate..."
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#haikufeels
My best friend violated rule two of my gang: a pal should not betray because of a woman. I had to kill him.
There are only two left. Like all great friends, we meet once in 10 years. With a weapon or two.
To #relate better,
Anticipate betrayal,
The end can't be far.
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Breaking News:
The Latest Amendment
Politicians of a democracy cannot display religion. They cannot do anything, good or bad, for people of their own religion.
Addendum: Atheists, communists and the #rest of that lot cannot spend taxpayers' money on their members.
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Pssst...just wondering,
Do you #explore every write
Or stick to your club?
What might bring you out
From the hole you have dug deep,
Just wondering...sssshhh.
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#haiku #senryu ?
I miss the dusk of yesterdays,
With prayers to the setting sun,
For a ticket on some flight;
I still pray to the same,
With no wish to #hike to nowhere.
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I met her at an author book reading. During the Q&A session, I asked her to read page 73 of her book.
Staring at me, throughout, she brought that page to life.
We nodded at the end. As the page dictated, I had to go.
To #balance falling in love and keeping it alive.
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"I'm in love with a writer."
"Beware the curse on writers."
"Curse?"
"They will have had a love no other love can match. As for misery, don't compete with them."
"Oh!"
"Put them on #budget meals. Bitter gourd juice and sour rice gruel. Best cure for imagination."
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We were never given a chance
To walk in those fields,
To swim in that river,
To stand on the cliff
With the blue blue sea beneath us,
But I ain't complaining,
We had a top #priority for a moment
And we could be we.
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