We real cool

We real cool. We
Left School. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
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Do you have Hutch?

Few days back, I saw a movie. It’s name - Devdas. I fell in love. No! not with Dev, but the other one. Hmmm. It’s Paro.

I went home, I slept. I woke up. I ran.
I went to school. I went to the loo.

But you know what? She followed me everywhere I went. She did follow me! More

Office Friendships

Eve is madly in love with Hugh
And Hugh is keen on Jim.
Charles is in love with very few
And few are in love with him.
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Trivial

“Bless me Lord, for i have sinned”
He kneels down at the altar after his confession. When through, he walks out, feeling jolly and pleased. On his way, he picks up a dozen long stemmed red roses for his mistress.
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Silent Poem

backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk
underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow

woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile
sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep
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Skeleton of a Story

People were laughing. He was dead.
Slapstick.
He slipped on a banana peel = funny.
He died = funny.
Black comedy.
He died and no one laughed.
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Nothing

Look up at the sky. There it is. What? Nothing.
Nothing. You were so afraid of that. Nothing. What nothing? Nothing.

Home after a lifetime. Nothing.

Where is it all gone? People asking you, what has happened. Nothing.

Do you need something? Nothing More

Winter ‘84

I tell the corner store owner
‘pretty cold out there’
he says
‘ain’t what it used to be’
‘oh’, i say, ‘why is that’
innocently
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Everyone has a purpose

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

-David Letterman

Tags: David Letterman, Television, Purpose, Quotations

Uxorious?

It’s great if you are Einstein. Great thing if you are Jesus Christ. Yes it’s a big thing. It’s a big thing to be her husband. More

Superstition In Numbers

in the middle of the road
a sleep-walker
wake up to reality
she is dead
life is difficult
there is no prose
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An Immorality

Sing we for love and idleness,
Naught else is worth the having.

Though I have been in many a land,
There is naught else in living.
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Inspired

She says she wants me to live,
Then she gives me the poison to drink.
When I drink the poison,
She complains that I do not die.
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I have you

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other’s lives.

-Hugh Elliot

Tags: Quotations, Hugh Elliot, Love, Truth

Patience

You watch with bated breath as he walks towards you. His step is tantalizingly slow and you are fast running out of breath. Your mind is in a tumult.

The breath between you could be miles. From this distance, you can’t even see his face. Yet you can imagine each line, each plane, each curve and each angle of it. More