Long ago, I tried to be god.
They made me read the contract.
I've to leave you, point 13. Ok.
Can't even have a #wet dream, point 2. Whatthe.
Life will be like social media, point 7.
Sans attachment. Sans consistency. Sans future.
Point 91 was the rub. NDA covers that.
#vss365
Dear #vss365 friends, life’s been crazy.
Fell in love. Expected trouble.
First, the competitors. A duel with machete and fists. She saved us from #slaughter. Not interested, she said. Foes to bros in 5 seconds.
Second is worse. She said I love you. I’ve left town. More later.
My friend (10) and I (6) explored the derelict mansion;
In the first room, a corpse said Hi;
In the second, we found Miss Bland and Ish in flagrante delicto;
The third was no surprise, zombies of course,
Hid in the fourth, with the other kids in #quest of life's meaning.
#vss365
If I could write about my dreams,
You might find stuff not so boring,
But then it might be lurid,
Or harsh truths will annoy you,
I might be my true self,
Anon in a #car in a cul-de-sac,
Waiting for a bored thug, like you,
To bash his head in, not ghosted like this.
#vss365
Remember those days
We walked six miles for #breakfast?
Romance at Koshy's.
#vss365
#BangaloreDays
#haiku #senryu ?
"For you, everything is just a phase,"
In a story, she described me well.
I was a saint at first,
A levitating frog-in-the-well.
Then the rejected anti-social,
Unsure, horny, giddy, I met her.
It's been one long slide after that,
Being #bad with a flickering halo.
#vss365
"Class! Give me a #haiku or #senryu about the #apple. Arjun?"
"Newton, Adam, Eve
Gave the apple a bad name.
As much as doctors."
"Why did I ask you? How about you, Swapna?"
"In a dream I peeled.
Was it apple or orange?
Future in limbo."
"Hmmm."
#vss365
(When I wrote this for #vss365 #apple in August, I learned the meaning/difference when one says, "peeling an orange" and "peeling an apple".)
Got an award for ‘Internet Search’.
It’s a story about:
the one love (no Internet footprint);
the one I should have loved (will not search); and,
the one I want to love (how to search).
The judges say, “breath of stale #air in suffocating times”, “nonvoyeuristic”.
#vss365
"You must be missing your hometown."
"Not really."
"Why so?"
"Prefer the anonymity here."
"Can't be that bad."
"When I discovered that my aunt knows the details of our sex life, I had to leave."
"We too know that. You have a problem with...the #coda, huh?"
"How?!"
#vss365
"When we have kids, I'll be a househusband."
"I'll give funds for them. Not for you."
"What are you talking about?"
"Aunty, for the class debate: should marriage seek #resonance via partnership or individualism?
"In primary five?"
"Ma, will you..."
"Finish dinner."
#vss365
"Can I court you?"
"You don't have to. I'm convinced you're the right one."
"Oh. I'm going to convince you I'm not. Start from there."
"Us humans would have gone extinct with such ethics."
"Us humanoids can't delude ourselves with a #crescendo or diminuendo in love."
#vss365
Do you remember the children's book that changed your life? I do.
It was about a ruler; a girl given as a gift; a nomad who killed the ruler.
It was about the brutal witch-hunt against outsiders, against those who disrupt peace and #harmony of the land with new ideas.
#vss365
Was that a children's book?
Oh yes, children got too old in my time.
What's the name of that book?
'Buried Gods'.
based on an old short story of mine,
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/12/buried-gods.html
What they saw:
He lifted the woman from the bed, placed her head in the noose, held her for a few moments. Then, he kicked the chair and watched her body jerk. He touched her hand, feeling for a #pulse, before leaving.
"That's your father!" one of the voyeurs said.
#vss365
from an old short story of mine:
https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/05/after-nights-in-white-satin.html
Loud grief of mourners
Hide the lost ones' clarion calls.
Graveyard #acoustics.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
The seven year itch--
Way to get out of the #groove.
Murder is cheaper.
#vss365
#haiku #senryu ?
"You should have died. Not Ma. I've hated you all my life."
"I know."
"You felt the same about me, huh?"
"Don't know."
"Suits your work, huh? With that stupid #motif. We are truer when we hate than when we love or some such crap!"
"We need hate to keep love alive."
#vss365
"You have no idea about #Melody, do you?"
"Music and I..."
"Definitely tone-deaf."
"Hmmm."
"Your wife has moved out."
"Why...when did your mother...?"
"Wow! You remember I'm your kid."
"Are you?"
"Pa!"
"Let's find her. Jingle, right?"
"Pa!"
"Joking, kiddo."
#vss365
