August, 2006

Round and Round

August 31st, 2006

After a long and wretched flight
That stretched from daylight into night,
Where babies wept and tempers shattered
And the plane lurched and whiskey splattered
Over my plastic food, I came
To claim my bags from Baggage Claim

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In the United States

August 30th, 2006

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

-Gertrude Stein

It’s All Coming Back

August 28th, 2006

I’m learning how to fall in love with the endless surprises that life brings everyday. Destiny… Never much believed it. But At one precise moment, it all unfolds and you realize… It’s all coming back to me now…

 

- Neha

If you have a talent

August 27th, 2006

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

-Brendan Francis

The House of Sumit Panjabi

August 25th, 2006

* This one is For Sumit… The most wonderful boy I hve known… I hope he turns into a most wonderful Man*

Thanks for always being there.

The Stale Smell of Used Socks

The Bedsheet with Countless Holes from Cigarettes

A Shoe Without A Sole

A Playstation

A Heap of Clothes From the Laundry

And in The Midst of All…

The Best Bachelor I’ve EVER Known

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Where Or When

August 24th, 2006

It seems we stood and talked like this before
We looked at each other in the same way then
But i can’t remember where or when

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On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam

August 24th, 2006

Well I have and in fact
more than one and I’ll
tell you this too

I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against

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Drunken Conversations (In 3 Different Bits)

August 22nd, 2006

I

V: I bumped into some girl yesterday.

R: You lucky bastard… did you bang her?

V: Shut up R, don’t always make fun of everything. She is in love with you.

R: Huh? Who is she? Do I know her.

V: I think you do. You met her two years ago, when she was studying. You flew over to see her too.

R: Oh. You are talking about her.

V: Yes.

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Tujhse Naraaz Nahin Zindagi

August 21st, 2006

“Jeene Ke Liye Socha Hi Nahin,

 Dard Sambhalne Honge”

- Gulzar

And then… Reality continues to Ruin my Life.

- Neha

Back From The Dead

August 19th, 2006

It’s been 4 months since they brought his body to my doorstep. Three days after I reported him missing. He came back. In a gunny sack. He had turned almost blue in colour and his body had shrivelled from being afloat in the lake for three days. They found him entangled in some weeds, by what I was told. I had watched in horror as they took him. Chanting, crying, calling. I stayed home when they burnt him to ashes. I couldn’t bear to see the man I have loved all these years, turn to char. Yes. I am a weakling. (more…)

The Way You Look Tonight

August 18th, 2006

Someday when i’m awfully low
When the world is cold
I will feel a glow
Just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight
Oh, but you’re lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft
There is nothing for me
But to love you
Just the way you look tonight
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The Waiting Doors

August 17th, 2006

I lay still, trying not to breathe too hard, propped up on an elbow, watching him as he spoke on the phone with his sister. He left a few words hanging in the air, smelling of smoke. He has not changed a bit. And I have not changed a bit too, I remind myself, smiling. Nothing has changed. And yet everything is different. He bends a little more, asserting another bundle of smoky words. He has definitely packed a few pounds around his waist. I drink him in leisurely with my eyes. (more…)

All’s Well That Ends Hell

August 15th, 2006

Welcome to www.yourlifesucks.com

You are viewing the official website of Satan aka Lucifer.

Tell me, is your life slow paced? Do you feel pangs of pain and hurt? Do you feel guity for stabbing your best friend in the back? Do you think that your life just plain sucks? Well, you have come to the right place then. At Hell’s Inc, you could get happiness and more. just follow the easy steps listed below to sell your soul and you will find happiness knocking on your door. (more…)

Dilli Meri Jaan

August 15th, 2006

I close my eyes to think of her… It’s been a while and life has been moving on, though sometimes I do miss her terribly. We’ve had a love hate relationship, she and I. I slammed some doors and turned my back on her for good. But I missed her all the while. She was waiting, like always and even though I liked to believe that I had an upper hand, that my life was moving on, I knew… I was incomplete without her. She was always like the girlfriend who was too clingy. But of late, she has become something of a mistress, to whom I have to keep returning to, to gratify myself. It’s been a long time… (more…)

Cardiac blues

August 14th, 2006

A house painted red
with your favourite gate and some flowers
a library full of books and wood
and love, hidden
out of sight
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