"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
