bushy tailed

 

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.

#vss365

#haikufeels

we chose

 

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

#vss365

the flaw

 

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.

#vss365

demons within

 

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.

#vss365

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

Forgive?!

 

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!

#vss365

love-sign

 

"#Baffled??? Love-sign on tree?!!

That's to kill time, waiting! Not

To #communicate..."

#vss365

#haikufeels

betrayal

 

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.

#vss365

religion vs politics

 

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.

#vss365

echo chambers

 

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.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

prayers

 

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.

#vss365

book reading

 

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.

#vss365

writers' curse

 

"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."

#vss365

we

 

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.

#vss365

the rule of three

 

At 19, that was seduction.

She served. Slowly. Teasing. Rice, dal, stir-fried veg, salad, curd. A long pause. An idiotic #smile on my face. Ooops, she giggled, and brought a large covered dish.

She opened the cover. There were three pieces of fried chicken wing flat. She gave me one and took one herself. She did not cover the dish. The remaining one kept #smiling at me.

I thought about the rule of three, why it had to be three.

Something puzzled me. Was it for a third person? The other? Was it for me? Was it to be left alone? The epistemology of chicken wing flats was too much for me.

We heard the sound of a car.

Oh, they are back, she cried. 

I put the third chicken wing flat in my mouth. The idiotic #smile was back.

Her parents entered the scene.

What are you doing, young man, her mother snarled in her cold polite way. Her father did not say a word.

I pulled out the bones and placed it on my plate.

I left. Without a #smile from her.

not #vss365 ?

from

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2018/02/with-or-without.html

the blessed

 

Went to a store. Fell in love with the #smile of a fellow-traveller.

Came home and waxed eloquent, limited only by my vocabulary, about the smile of women and how only a few are truly blessed.

Banished to the doghouse by the lesser blessed.

#vss365

the basics

 

"Kids, let's talk about the birds and the bees."

"Don't #waste our time!"

"You will fall in love soon. 

Don't forget 

your wants 

and 

the other's needs. 

Get the economics right. 

To get to the point,

Without beating around the bush, 

Get the basics right."

"Eww!"

#vss365

a bore

 

I am a bore. I know. I remove your glasses. Need the climax at the start. The eyes say all, the time we can't #save. Then, the shawl/dupatta has to go. Only thin cotton in between. Hug, kiss and some goofy act. I have to hear you laugh. The same always, even without you.

#vss365

morbid

 

He stopped her near his gate and, gave her ‘Jude the Obscure’. She accepted it and proceeded to the market. She returned the book 4 days later. 

"It's morbid. Read only half."

"Once morbidity is #accepted, you will laugh at everything."

That's how their affair began.

#vss365

from my short story 'A very dull, dreary affair...nearly...'

(Sorry, friends, I am still having the weekend blues (aka cleaning-mopping blues)...Brrrr...I had to recycle old stuff.)

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2011/08/very-dull-dreary-affairnearly.html

our Leader

 

Why did I invite Hosappan (Uncle Jose)?

"Hosappa! What is wrong with our Leader?"

"Your Leader is like those Middle-east rulers with no idea about democracy. And you all are losers clamouring for #rejected patriarchy."

They won't notice that all the dishes are salty.

#vss365

logic

 

"Will you give yes or no answers to the next 2 questions, my love?"

"Ok."

"Will you give the opposite answer to the next question as to this one?"

"No/yes."

"Will you marry me?"

"Ah!"

"Shall we order?"

"The #smell of freedom has unleashed every appetite."

"Grrr"

"Hmmm"

#vss365 

bare

 

Do you remember those summer nights, at the coffee-shop near our hostel, around closing time, for the cold coffee and a/c, to #taste life, in our thin nightwear, bare beneath, with lovers at every table, in their own game of truth or dare, and now, bare, within without? 

#vss365

IT

 

"What should I do with it?"

"IT is your grandchild."

"Never liked kids."

"Don't I know. Bye, love."

"Bye, Ma."

"Well, kid?"

"Well?"

"Do you #write?"

"Only novels."

"Got my genes."

"Fibbing."

"Same here."

"No Internet?"

"After 11 pm."

"I need ChatGPT to deal with you."

#vss365

World Water Day

Apologies, first of all, to my #vss365 friends. No pretty 'pome' or gory fiction today, just plain reality. Nothing to #think about.

Another 5 days without water supply. Insomnia (and other pains) came along with water woes. 4 yrs back, lost my father in such circumstances.

Nights are wasted thinking about mob rule in the largest democracy and how every politician here (fascist, communist, liberal, centrist, whatever) believes that even basic human rights should favour the majority religious/caste communities in their area.

Enough of that.

Disaster is embarrassing. 

Speak too much about it and imagine the eyes of dear friends glaze over. 

Dead love, illness, divorce, abuse, water...talk about it twice and there comes that yawn.

"Sorry," I have to say and, try not to make a friend a stranger.

small talk

 

"I told Rajan his son shouldn't marry that girl!"

"5 years, no kids!"

"His wife and that girl...snake and mongoose!"

"I told Rajan not to marry that woman!"

"His daughter married that...!"

"They have shifted to the city!"

"Shashi #discuss-ed with us. Killed all."

"City!"

#vss365

date

 

I went on a date. #Relax, my mantra. It worked. 

Till the first slurp of soup. 

Trouble trickled in to tease out an avalanche. I could have stopped my boasts and jokes.

Her pouting lips grew thinner by the minute. The waiters flexed their muscles.

Denouement? 

Ah!

#vss365

chasing a mirage

 

I might forget you,

If I could #eat what I want.

Till then, feel #secure.

It is the weekend,

I've old bread and expired jam.

The mop and you too.

Chasing a mirage

Of 17-course banquet,

With you by my side.

#vss365

#haikufeels

#haiku #senryu ?

#tragedy 🙃

thorns

 

I used to #sleep well thinking about the lovely time we had.

No more. 

Why am I thinking of all that she had to do for me?

Will I come clean or will I take it to my grave?

Love and roses are real only when the thorns are bloodied.

#vss365

yesterday

 

"This day 25 years back 

Will always be yesterday,

Kissed your hand, our French kiss...

Delete that!"

"Huh?"

"Now this:

Forget today and tomorrow,

That will end on some rocks 

Or in the deep deep sea...

Dead narrator? Good! #Work on that. Make it a murder."

"Huh?"

#vss365

Big Brother

 

Big Brother, here, isn't a supercomputer. It's #Closure Inc. with the motto: Hate Kills, Love Destroys.

In a report on the riots that changed the country, they say it's because of a lady who told a politician, “Show me you are a man.” 

Six words behind many disasters. 

#vss365

sign lingo

 

At the Coffee House, there's always a #celebration of the 'now'. In '88, when ‘Children of a Lesser God’ came to town, we used sign lingo for a month. I got dosa instead of cutlet. After the '15 Assembly ruckus, the fashion in the House was hiked up dhoti revealing lots.

#vss365

roller-coaster ride

 

Love’s an #adventure,

A free roller-coaster ride

With cost in large print.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

Waiter

 

There's always a 'Waiter' among those #peace had ditched. Alone, nursing drinks, facing the exit. Here, that's ok. Didn't wait that one time, cursed her, as if I was busy. She's gone. Now, I wait for those with no reason to be with me. Will I think it's her if they come?

#vss365

drowning

 

Two types of people:

#Empowered and castaway.

One floats other drowns.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

the idiot

 

The rookie politician

Tries to be a philosopher,

Never saying

What the masses want to hear,

Sticking to what they should hear.

I had a similar #excuse to be an idiot.

A rookie lover

Tried to be a poet,

Never doing

What she wants,

Sticking to lines even I wouldn’t read.

#vss365

the hero and the loser

 

"Aren't you the hero?"

A stranger from the past said,

Sans expected #laugh; 

Who or what I was back then:

rigid, 

rigorous, 

repressed, 

real rascal, 

righteous,

yeah,

romantic too;

A loser now but 

My eyes don't lie anymore, 

Even if it's to 

roar in an empty room.

#vss365

Attukal Pongala

 

Today, we have the Attukal Pongala the largest women-only festival.

The ladies at home used to go near the temple to make the offering, to caress the symbol of  peace, justice, security (aka Mother).

Now, they do it at home.

Men are used as porters or just forgotten.

#vss365

the veil

 

When you used a veil

To reveal and tease slyly.

Cloud's silent #whisper.

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

 

1000 ways out of hell

 

Found this great book, '1000 Ways Out of Hell', with chapters on miserable friends, s*xual faux pas & 998 other problems (with solutions).

Took the first bus, in a rush to #savour long lost wisdom.

At home, realized I had been 'pickpocketed'. Left only with the cover. 

#vss365

untouchable

 

Do not talk about our #resilience,

How we withstood centuries 

Of untouchability,

Without basic human rights 

(like water from a well).

Do not make me say “Bah!”

When in a democracy,

Basic human rights 

(like water in public pipe)

Are reserved for the privileged.

#vss365

circumcatalyst

 

‘I met her, like most such cases, not through love at first sight or some unforgettable encounter but via a circumcatalyst.’  

That was his word for a mixture of circumstances (around which one’s life circles) and a #catalyst (in this case, a common friend). 

#vss365

from my short story 'She Went'

https://justoneavatar.blogspot.com/2017/12/she-went.html

(Apologies for reproducing old stuff for #vss365. In a bad state because of ZERO water supply the last 4 days. More on that community-based discrimination in future posts as I shrivel without water.)

howl at the mid-day moon

 

There has been a murder here.

#Safe wasn't his middle name;

"Blasphemy!" the left-n-right hurled at him;

"Hypocrites" he called all;

"Remember your last war!?" he said to warmongers;

Offended his echo chamber, love too, with truth.

Why did he howl at the mid-day moon?

#vss365 

vulnerable

 

When we hugged and kissed,

Did we feel safe and secure

Or #vulnerable?

#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?

mirror

 

In my village Kadalil, there is an old temple with two deities: one, a mirror that reflects you; the other, a mirror that reflects the opposite of who you are. 

That's to make the #incomplete whole, according to belief. 

People go to the new temple with a stone deity.

#vss365 

rigor mortis

 

"Swapna, what's happened?"

"Arjun-style rigor mortis."

"What?!"

"Happens whenever he writes too much of romantic stuff."

"Oh! Should we take him to hospital?"

"A kick in the butt will do."

"Will that release him from the grasp of love?"

#vss365

that's all there is

 

I’m not a Nature guy,

Frangipani or mulligatawny,

Syllables for god-knows-what,

But this tree

Takes me within

And it’s there in all my dreams.

I’m not a Love guy,

Lust or love,

Semantics for #release-perhaps,

But you

Don’t leave me

And that’s all there is to my life.

#vss365

the I I am not

 

Woke up with her beside me,

Hid my face in her hair,

And pretended to sneeze,

She laughed and warned,

"As long as you stay #distant

From your well-rehearsed act."

I struggled to live in the now,

To let the unmentionable happen,

She slipped away from the I I am not.

#vss365

why do you write

 

"Arjun, why do you write?"

"It's a barometer of love. The ones I love never read it; the polite say it's horrid, others remain #distant. Those who read it find true love. Elsewhere."

"Nice sales strategy."

"You, Swapna?"

"I write about the fictitious ones who love you."

#vss365

the truth about the road less travelled

 

I was a kid

When told to take 

The road less travelled;

If only 

They had admitted

Truth is on the #brink of disaster;

Two roads diverged in the wood,

On one, we were a couple,

On the other, mere ghosts;

We travelled

On those Penrose stairs,

One ending in the other.

 

#vss365

(Apologies to Robert Frost. My last 3 pics here are products of my first experiments with Deep Dream Generator.)

James, James not Bond

 A wannabe Bond (age 14) went on a date. 3 lechers spoiled their fun. "You have to be a man," she said.

Still traumatized, James (age 24) intervened in a fight between a couple. She put him in hospital.

He remains stirred and shaken on the #brink of depressing confusion.

#vss365

#TrueStory 🥲

the future in the past

 

Why do I see all

Through rain-stained pane?

Remember this place

We daydreamed about?

Holding each other,

Sharing breath,

Awash with tears

Of the future 

Already the past

At a #tangent 

To the present.

Which lover doomed

Loved less?

The way of wars too.

Never right.

#vss365

(The pic is one of my first experiments with Deep Dream Generator.)

saddle-point

 

"Problem with my thoughts?

Oh! The troublesome #tangent 

At a saddle-point."

"Arjun, your problem:

You try your pomes in Maths class

And Maths in no class."

"Swapna, understand

The agony of never

Knowing future path."

"Do not worry, lad!

Sliding down or climbing high,

You will be a pain."

"Hey, why are we talking in haiku/senryu?"

#vss365

(Just a tangential post. 🙃)

when the killing will end

 

Life is clear

When I hallucinate

a merry romp

with buried past,

My first kill,

Merciful they said,

Second even better,

Those kind eyes,

Skulls wink bones tap,

I will stop when 

It's like that again, 

#Bereft of guilt.

#vss365

out of hiding

 

To escape ragging, I hid in the Library (b/w Russ. Litt. & Vict. Litt). She (b/w Q. Chem. & Optics) was 2 years my senior. 

3rd day, late #evening, I asked, "Ma'am, can I escort you to Ladies Hostel?" Carried her bag. Walked behind her. Gangs of seniors waited for me. 

#vss365

Arjunesque

 

"Soldiers without the I

#solder us into one nation."

"From where did you copy that, Arjun?"

"Ma'am, it's mine!"

"Swapna?"

"Ma'am, he took mine and left his."

"Read his."

"Solder, solder, burning hot,

What do I do with this word?"

"That's Arjunesque, indeed!"

#vss365

 

treasure hunt

 

I woke up with a tattoo.

At first, it was like a treasure hunt. Hunting people for their head, for the clue tattooed on top. 

Then, we realized our #mistake about the treasure. 

If the heads are in the right order, we will have the ultimate holy (or satanic) verses.

#vss365

been there done that

 

"I was 5 when I read my first book: 'Mystery of the Missing #Easel'. An artist is murdered. His easel is missing. But not his valuable paintings."

"Murdered with that?"

"Stuffed in every orifice. How did you guess?"

"Been there, done that."

"Really?"

"Rough teens!" 

#vss365

alone, with you

 

We never danced together,

But we did walk together,

Hand in hand, never,

How easily I use never,

It's easy, 

With just the past,

With no present,

No future.

But we did, together, walk,

And I do retrace that walk,

Every moment I feel you,

Whenever I feel alive,

Alone, with you.

party is over

 

The party is over, 

it's time to:

1. restrict lovers to reminders;

2. maintain status quo of rest as loose #connection;

3. keep track of bills/dysfunctions;

3a. change will;

4. cut losses, brag profits;

5. schmooze for loans/free drinks;

(5. Or, should I love for such?)

#vss365

Ooops!

 

"Miss our V-days in B'lore."

"Every year, the sushi place on Church Street."

"Enter, look at the price."

"Exit! Ha!"

"Then, to the joint opposite. Phulkas, mutton curry. Yummy!"

"Which place? Which girl did...?"

"Oh!"

Warning: Do not excite the #vixen in your Valentine.

#vss365

30 minutes more!

 

Assume that you, yes, you human beings, have 30 minutes more before going #extinct.

What will you do?

1. Finish a bottle of Glenfiddich.

2. Have s*x.

3. Tell loved ones, "Good riddance, huh?"

4. Pray, "Plzzz, lemme come back as Dracula."

5. Others (Specify).

6. Sleep.

#vss365

red ant

 

My first date was on V-day. 

She (and her sister) and I tried a new burger joint. We nibbled (the 'red ant in our heaven' gobbled).

We went for 'Fanny and Alexander'. 

Sitting still, senseless, satiated, we touched briefly (when the sis snored). 

#Extinct lovers now.

#vss365

right spelling

 

“Swapna, well done. Read your sentence with the given word.”

“The #pronking stock was laid flat by the short-seller’s report.”

“Arjun, why have you written that you want to take the Fifth?”

“Didn’t you spell it wrong like how we spell f-c-u-k-i-…”

“Out!”

#vss365

pet name

 

My pet name is Chijee.

My girlfriend (from the Far East) made that Chilli. She said my name in public. Seductive it was. 

I was deported immediately.

There's an Interpol red notice for a short dark ugly guy with the alias #Qilin. His alleged crime: romantic monster.

#vss365

dreams & daydreams

 

In my daydreams,

there's the Mittyesque hero-joker 

with (Juno, Kafka, Garbo)-esque ladies

I write about.

Then, there's the path to Nowhere, 

dreary dreams, dross, real.

There,

lovers play poker,

politicians are #mimicry-artistes,

masses ready to be fooled by that act.

#vss365

In Wonderland

 

Last night, I was in Wonderland.

Watched a monkey feed an eagle,

A King Cobra shook its hood 

Reprovingly, others stayed away,

An #amarok nursed my new born child,

I slithered away soullessly leaving fear,

The dark shroud conquering their light.

In the crumbling temple of the dark, 

A tunnel damp with all downside up,

Cries and screams of new kills

Awakened fresh murderous thoughts,

At the bloody altar I sang the hymn 

Romance of the Dead on the Rocks.

#vss365

Bright Night

 

Gone are the days 

When I could have boasted a fine litter

Of thoughts and scribbles around me,

With cut-paste-delete

And with the full moon a day too old

The vacuum is too clear, bright Night,

Let me howl long,

If I had loved you like I should have,

This would be an epic.

with you

 

They told me not to look at you

But that's all I wish to see;

Doomed by your presence, they say,

But it's your absence that ruins;

You came and went as you pleased,

Why did I not complain or curse;

I was loony before and after you,

With you my real self did not hide.

couple therapy

 

"Monkey!"

"Donkey!"

"#Parrotfish!"

"Pink-bottomed macaque!"

"Well done, students!"

"Will this help?"

"No problems if you pass the 30 chambers of Couple Therapy."

"Sensei?"

"Yes?"

"Should we use the 29th before the 30th?"

"Always use pillow-fighting before name-calling."

#vss365

on a bright warm morn like this

 

on a bright warm morn like this

those forced to #hibernate

rose red-eyed raring to go

at the throat of the sleepless dead

the animals with no space

the trees broken and burnt

the seditious patriots

pointing fingers at themselves

the poets

ready to scream not sell cheap

the lovers too

with no excuse

with no shame

with lust 

with care

but

not i...

#vss365

the truth of toxic tales

 

A merry five we were

Thro’ thick tumblers of ale.

We helped lawyer Kris

With patriotic lies for a billionaire.

No politics please,

Neel’s dad is bedridden bcos of that.

Soldier Mohit has toxic tales,

His defenceless uncertainty its truth.

That left the joker

And the Grim Reaper.

speak the truth

 

I got to know shape-shifting spirits after joining Twitter. Some follow me. Most have stopped talking to me. They didn’t like it when I remarked that their #kelpie-hooves remained intact even in their human form.       

#vss365

wrong

 

I have never been more wrong

Than when I thought I was right

In every way I could think of.

The catch was neither obscure nor hidden

Even without hindsight or natural #sloth

Unblinking I stared blindly at the truth.

#vss365

lies with truth

 

Here, it's not V-day but Half-day that gets lovers into a tizzy.

On Feb 13th, lovers have to speak half-truth/lies. That is, an obvious lie with truth to support it.

"I am a model," I said last year. "I modelled for a photo contest: playing chess, trying to be a nerd."

"I am an escort," she replied. "I cater the girlfriend experience."

Very few lovers survive.

freud

 

"I dreamt about a #wolpertinger."

"What's that?"

"Something they use in Bavaria to put kids to sleep."

"Freud's interpretations say you will enter a forest (life?) with an attractive woman on a full moon, meet this thing and come out happy after giving her to that."

#vss365

out! now!

 

"'Tirra lirra' sang Sir #Ocelot. Do we crack the mirror now, Ma'am?"

"Why is she called The Lady of Onion, Ma'am?"

"Swapna, I did not expect you to stoop to Arjun's level."

"This Lady is so meh!"

"Sir, indeed! Tirra lirra, my left foot!"

"Both of you, out! Now!"

#vss365

(Apologies to Tennyson)

ain't no lover

 

I ain't no #zoophilist

I ain't no cynophilist

I ain't no ailurophilist

I ain't no lover

Bcos my loves were those.

I could be gastrophilist

Or a thalassophilist

Definitely a clinophilist

I ain't no lover

Bcos my love ain't those.

#vss365

(Animal-themed prompts? 😱😨)

the picture

 

"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)

interesting life

 

“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

heartbreak

 

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?

heartbreaking

 

My #doppelganger

Eloped with my love and food.

Heartbreaking hunger.

#vss365

#senryu #haiku ???

resonance

 

"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

The One

 

It's been a long wait

For the one with me today

#Guilty of staying.

#haikufeels

Bah!

 

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

tired grey cloud

 

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

roots & lies

 

‘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

oh baby

 

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

traditional way

 

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)