tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62058403106918468982023-11-15T18:44:06.326+05:30Conversations With Myselfdon't happen too oftenGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-64970717321390616272023-08-05T10:27:00.001+05:302023-08-05T10:36:24.024+05:30How<span style="font-family: helvetica;">How to talk to someone you don’t wish to know<br />How to make happen on the go<br />How to flow with the flow<br />How to put on a show<br />How to fail, follow and lead<br />How to thunder, storm and recede<br />How to command, conquer and concede<br />How to draw the line from worth to deed<br />How to walk on without a clue<br />How to man a galleon without a crew<br />How to lie about things that aren’t true<br />How to do you<br />How to make more money much too fast<br />How to make a million moments last<br />How to unroll a die you didn’t cast<br />How to pray a path through the pangs of the past<br />How to nurse a future scar<br />How to take the wheel of your rollercoaster car<br />How to be farther when you’re already far<br />How to water pain in the winter sun<br />How to do nothing that needs be done<br />How to love those you can’t for fun<br />How to mourn something before it’s begun<br />How to laugh the wrong way<br />How to hurt the right way<br />How to sing anyway<br />How to heal another day<br />How to be generous without keeping score<br />How to cut the charade from every chore<br />How to break a window when you’re shown the door<br />How to find what you’re looking for</span>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-35241011667672196422023-07-31T10:22:00.007+05:302023-08-05T10:23:57.625+05:30Plastic<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mine is a plastic love. Produced readily, pollutes easily. It can take
on any colour and sometimes let you see right through. Lethal in small doses,
fatal otherwise. Tender and toxic. It is the fabric of dollhouses, the stuff of
garbage. An elastic love that stretches itself, and the limits of what it can
do. It has survived a hundred years, and will endure a thousand more. Useless
and useful and listless and wistful. It can destroy a planet and often be a
fistful. It is the algae laced bottom of a water bottle, the hard yellow hat of
a construction worker at the throttle. The kind you hate on the internet and heart
in real life. The inflatable raft in an infinity pool, a lifejacket. The junk
that fills rooms and takes over the streets. Held to the lips and knocked
around by shoes. You can always tell when it’s burning, it can suffocate. It
smoulders. You can bend it but never tear it. Negate it but never compare it.
You can share it. It is not degradable.</span></span></p>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-5630395587027914972023-01-30T17:04:00.007+05:302023-08-05T10:24:26.029+05:30Commute<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span face=""Gill Sans MT", sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: 115%;">I
like the winter sun. It's untimely in a city where sweaters would long be
discarded, if they were woken from perennial hibernation, to begin with.
February is knocking. This month's been a flash, and the year before it felt
like a blink. I'll make it to work in time, but how much do I really have left?
Calculation doesn't always have the answers. People walk purposefully towards
whatever it is that keeps them awake at night. I am grateful for the breeze. Can't
remember the last time I heard 'Life's a breeze'. School, I think. Where did
all the lessons get us? Our inventiveness is incendiary. We keep finding new
ways to hate one another and hurt ourselves. Everything dies except for
hatred. We have inherited it and it is ours to bury. Mornings are a commute, trudging
the country miles betwixt bed and bath, from coffee to clothes to cab. Anything
can be a metaphor for anything if you spend two more minutes than you should
with it. I don’t desire to dwell in one. Give me real or the room to make it. Somewhere
in the crowd jostling into the train station, stealing steps on each other at each
turn, is someone humming their one track playlist, louder than they imagine. Flowers
perfume a square inch of air, offering up the faintest whiff to drivers-by, a
gentle jolt that reminds me of the sun. It has been my friend this day. I will
follow back. Go on, shine me the light of a million medallions. I won’t shy
away from this dalliance. I will live here for the length of a single moment
that holds within it the entirety of my existence. It is possible to feel
infinite and infinitesimal at once. To will oneself into being at will. Will I
remain long enough to watch myself grow cold? Will every single thing in these
shops ever get sold? Dream. Be positive. Kindness is a beautiful thing. Save
the world. Love me tender. The pop colour graffiti on the walls, our last
bastion of expression, has taken a turn for the profound. I look around.
Between a bottleneck and a traffic light. All of us wait, to be found.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="1set2-0-0"><span data-text="true">The king is dead</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="b3mrt-0-0"><span data-text="true">The courtiers fled</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="bc8lb-0-0"><span data-text="true">The soldiers bled</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e75t1-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="e75t1-0-0"><span data-text="true">For a loaf of bread</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="6k6eh-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6k6eh-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="6k6eh-0-0"><span data-text="true">The maid it fed</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="1uadr-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1uadr-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="1uadr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Now makes his bed</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="cqi2j-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cqi2j-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="cqi2j-0-0"><span data-text="true">And in her head</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="b93sc-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b93sc-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="b93sc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wakes a foreign dread</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="d21oo-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="d21oo-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="4cd5j-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4cd5j-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="4cd5j-0-0"><span data-text="true">These bars of steel</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="feidq-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="feidq-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="feidq-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sheer</span> walls of stone</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="25tbq-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="25tbq-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="25tbq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Have echoed forth</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="d1q0-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d1q0-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="d1q0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Many thoughts unknown</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="1rtom-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rtom-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="1rtom-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cut</span> through the cracks</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="5bgbv-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5bgbv-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="5bgbv-0-0"><span data-text="true">New sun has shone</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="at98s-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="at98s-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="at98s-0-0"><span data-text="true">That light is mine</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="9n0ll-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9n0ll-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="9n0ll-0-0"><span data-text="true">And mine alone</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="ernn0-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ernn0-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="ernn0-0-0"><span data-text="true">I am a beast</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="d632u-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d632u-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="d632u-0-0"><span data-text="true">Of heart and bone</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="5h0oc-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5h0oc-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="5h0oc-0-0"><span data-text="true">A hungry seed</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="40in7-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="40in7-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="40in7-0-0"><span data-text="true">In desert sown</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="2mg84-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2mg84-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="2mg84-0-0"><span data-text="true">When towering weeds</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="cpt7e-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpt7e-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="cpt7e-0-0"><span data-text="true">Had overgrown</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="sa8d-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="sa8d-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="sa8d-0-0"><span data-text="true">I wrung their necks</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="32ibm-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="32ibm-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="32ibm-0-0"><span data-text="true">To forge a throne</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="778ct-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="778ct-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="778ct-0-0"><span data-text="true">A summer sung</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="b1nug-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b1nug-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="b1nug-0-0"><span data-text="true">Among my own</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="a1134-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a1134-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="a1134-0-0"><span data-text="true">The bird remains</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="ti2i-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ti2i-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="ti2i-0-0"><span data-text="true">The nest has flown</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5vcme-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="5vcme-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="a82po-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a82po-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="a82po-0-0"><span data-text="true">For them that see</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="frstb-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="frstb-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="frstb-0-0"><span data-text="true">Past the canopy</span></span></span></span></div>
</div>
<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="e6d3k-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e6d3k-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="e6d3k-0-0"><span data-text="true">Waits a misery</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="6rl8g-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6rl8g-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="6rl8g-0-0"><span data-text="true">You must agree</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="3gi0g-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3gi0g-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="3gi0g-0-0"><span data-text="true">You will decree</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="6f0fh" data-offset-key="6ii9l-0-0" style="text-align: left;">
<div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ii9l-0-0">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="6ii9l-0-0"><span data-text="true">The swelling sea</span></span></span></span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-12531595156630853892016-03-15T19:11:00.004+05:302023-08-05T10:37:28.644+05:30The Writer's Creed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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not, my words.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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not the hour you were born or the piece of paper you were carefully, carelessly
or precariously committed to. Fear not the thought that engendered you or the
hesitation that endangered you. Fear not the fingers that typed you or the pen
that scribbled you. Fear not the blocks that held you back. Fear not.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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be read. You will be ignored. You will be celebrated, reviled and detested. You
will be tested. Fear not. Fear not the eyes that take you in, or the mouths
that spit you out. The blinks of disbelief, the stares of discontent, the nods
of appreciation and the muted gaze of indifference. They will greet you one and
the same.</span></span></span></div>
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not the cynicism you carry or the cynics you attract. Fear not the love you
foster or the fury you proclaim. There is a weight on your shoulders and it is
heavy. Only a few will see it but it is there nonetheless. You’ll be great
company on a good day and on another, a speck in the distance. On a bad
day, you will preach. </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
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cross lines. You will pass judgment. You will condone and condemn and be the
only shred of solace one has to cling to. You will skimmed through, skipped
altogether or spent entire days with. You will cloud thinking and rain fresh perspective.
You will crush notions and renew hope. You will not retreat. You will provoke.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span>Fear
not the chuckles you invite or the curses that drop by anyway. They will never
be enough. Fuck the distractions and the four-letter frowns. You have a
purpose. To set minds spinning and enter conversations and contemplations with
the subtle force of an honest intention. You will lift songs and power into speech. Speeches, someday.</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span>You will
be treasured. You will be forgotten. You will strike someone like a bolt of
lightning and stay buried under an avalanche of inconsequence until someone
else unearths you by accident. But, you won’t have aged. You are immortal, the
bright beacon of a beating heart. You travel to places my feet will never set
foot on.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
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</span></span></span></div>
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the strangers you speak to or the strangeness you bring out in them. You are a plot
to my mind and the key to its deceptions. You are my strongest hand and my
deepest tell. Let us play like we always have. Without reason, often with. You have
been my privilege to write and my pleasure to convey. You will be questioned.</span></span></span></div>
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believe in you.</span></span></span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-57906683023697862782015-11-05T16:57:00.000+05:302015-11-05T17:08:06.730+05:30Tungsten<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She's a young summer and a bright winter and the breeze that flows between. She's a candy floss will and a molten heart. She's a firefly.<br /><br />She’s a short burst of hard laughter, the rock lead in a jazz ballad. She has aces in her eyes and a story up her sleeve. She is hard talk and small talk and no talk at all. She's a long night at a packed bar, a short flight next morning. She’s a welcome contradiction.<br /><br />She’s soft cheer and sure grace. She pulls off a gown and a frown with the easiest of ease. She sways to no music, makes you swoon to her tune, she swings like no one’s watching. She dresses up and dresses down, and stuns you every time. She sports mascara but never a mask. She wears no airs.<br /><br />She’s the darkest heaven and the brightest hell. She flits through time, without a thing to prove, like warm poetry on a trapeze. She leads firms, and lays terms, and takes what’s coming to her. She runs the show. She runs as deep as still waters go. She should run for president.<br /><br />She’ll sting you with her honesty and nurse you with her presence. She knows no compulsion and only says what she means. She’ll flood you with answers and still leave you guessing. She walks like a tiger and runs like a child. She's pure fire and raw rain, her mind holds no regret. She’s the flicker of the filament of a bright yellow bulb. She is tungsten.</span></span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-8120364679630912032015-05-20T21:55:00.000+05:302015-11-07T21:58:43.406+05:30The End<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of this life, you will have laughed and loved, hurt and
hated, fought and failed, won and waited. You will have tried and
tested, cried and coped, dreamt, denied, helped and hoped. You will be
learned and lonesome, wistful and wise, calm and clueless, it'll show in
your eyes. You will have been anxious and affectionate, firm and
furious, interesting, insecure, conscientious, curious. You will be a
lot and a little you won't, you will have taken far more than you
thought you could give, you will be tired but find yourself grateful,
for every day you were lucky enough to live.</span></span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-63508595640834335752015-04-21T14:19:00.000+05:302015-04-21T14:23:49.622+05:30Smug<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I sit here among you. I sit here with a drink in my hand and the odd
smirk on my lips. You might think I'm a dreamer. You might believe I'm a
schemer. But the truth, God's honest version of it, is I
couldn't care less. I don't care for small talk and long winded
conversations of no comprehensible consequence. I don't care who you
are, what you've done and where you're from. I don't care for what you
have to say. It's not that I despise you. It might appear to be the
case, but I'm not judging you. No, that's unfair, because I don't know
you. I don't despise you. It's just that I don't want to know you. You
must be interesting. You must have some joke, anecdote or achievement up
your sleeve, raring to unleash itself upon an eager audience. But, I
will spare my ears the trouble and spare you an audience. I'm closing
myself as the evening wears on. And I quite like how that feels.</span></span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-88396526093458043142015-02-11T02:56:00.001+05:302019-07-02T15:59:07.544+05:30Light<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-15352454730710436242014-07-16T16:25:00.000+05:302014-08-09T17:40:56.486+05:30Ordinary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-71656909499788058322014-07-12T05:30:00.000+05:302014-07-16T16:16:48.327+05:30Umbrella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a night like this. As thunder and lighting laid desperate claim
to the sky, I remember we shared an umbrella. We pitched it in my living
room and crawled into its welcome shelter. It wasn't big by any measure
but neither were we. It was home to you and a cave to me. We lit a fire
and took turns shivering. I stuck my hand out to catch pretend
raindrops while you cooked a make-believe meal fo<span class="text_exposed_show">r our make-believe family of three.<br /> <br />
Two decades have passed, leaving us our own halves of that long
forgotten picture. You have a little mouth to feed, a child infinitely
more beautiful, and I presume hungrier, than the one you imagined that
night. And I'm caught in the rain, sticking my hand out from under the
umbrella.</span></span></span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-38453206726525060512014-05-20T12:33:00.001+05:302014-05-24T03:53:09.861+05:30Maybe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‘Maybe’ is a fascinating word.<br /><br />In fact, I’ll go as far as to say ‘maybe’ just may-fucking-be the second<br />most interesting word after, well, ‘fuck’.<br /><br />‘Maybe’ is better than ‘or’, and not because it’s three letters or a syllable heavier.<br />Come to think of it, ‘or’ is barely a word. Actually, it’s barely a sound, much like<br />a half-swallowed hiccup. Fundamentally, ‘or’ is dependent on the two choices<br />it needs to fit snugly between; in or out, soup or salad, your place or mine.<br />‘Maybe’, on the other hand, is a brand new choice altogether.<br /><br />‘Maybe’ is shorter and sweeter than its overtly sophisticated cousin ‘perhaps’.<br />Perhaps, you’d disagree. See what I mean? ‘Maybe’ is easy on the tongue,<br />you can drop it at will, like a hydrogen bomb, which brings me to my next point.<br /><br />Wielded well, ‘maybe’ is a potent weapon in the power hungry control-freak’s<br />(you, if you’re wondering) arsenal. Allow me to illustrate.<br /><br />--<br /><br />‘Do you love me?’<br /><br />‘Yes.’<br /><br /><i>‘That was easy.’</i><br /><br />‘Yes’ is acknowledgement, and although it presents the subject with success,<br />the feeling is short-lived. It’s precisely one chest thump, two fist bumps, three calls,<br />four social media posts or five eventful nights long. You can’t keep replaying<br />a single glorious instant for an eternity, can you?<br /><br />Outcome: Power forfeited.<br /><br />--<br /><br />‘Do you love me?’ <br /><br />‘No.’<br /><br /><i>‘Bite me.’</i><br /><br />‘No’ is outright rejection, a slap in the face, it’ll make the subject reel momentarily<br />but recover nonetheless. It’s a wake-up call, and some of us need more than one.<br />It puts the universe into perspective, and the jilted on an entirely disconnected<br />intellectual plane.<br /><br />Outcome: Subject forfeited.<br /><br />--<br /><br />‘Do you love me?’<br /><br />‘Maybe.’<br /><br /><i>‘What? How? Why? Okay.’</i><br /><br />‘Maybe’ feeds both curiosity and hope in the precise measure required to place<br />the aggressor in a position of power. Even though the odds of approval and rejection<br />stand equally divided, it is human nature to disregard the latter. After all, hope sells<br />harder than sex ever did. And, while a part of the subject’s mind devotes itself to<br />optimism-laced flights of fancy, another dissects the response, probing desperately<br />for arguments that aggravate the former. <br /><br />Simply put, when blind hope gets boring, one turns to curiosity to discover worthy<br />justification. A valid justification strengthens hope and the cycle completes its first,<br />but far from final, revolution.<br /><br />Outcome: Power and subject retained.<br /><br />--<br /><br />‘Maybe’ is the grey in a world of black and white. It is the convenient middle path<br />between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. <i>Do I sense Buddha frowning?</i> ‘Maybe’ is nonchalant,<br />noncommittal, nonconformist even. It has a certain air of suspense working for it.<br />It’s Bond-like, yet catty. It’s a veiled insult, yet sometimes pretty darn straight.<br />It’s absolute, yet throws open a world of countless probabilities and analyses.<br />It’s the answer to the question you weren’t seeking an answer to. It keeps you on<br />the prowl and your victims on their toes.<br /><br />‘Maybe’ is a drug. Use it before you lose it, because you’re eventually going<br />to lose it anyway.<br /><br />Well, maybe.</span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-75791011509615486942014-05-08T17:03:00.003+05:302014-05-08T17:12:55.386+05:30Yes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was quite simple, really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you said ‘Yes’, I’d take your dog on a walk so you could
sneak in an hour of sleep,<br />and get back in time to watch the sight of your eyes
adjusting to the light as the first<br />sip of freshly brewed tea kissed your lips.
I’d make you breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you said ‘Yes’, I’d ride you to work, buy you a croissant
to go, even though<br />I secretly know you prefer muffins but are watching your
sugar intake. I’d pick up<br />your dry cleaning, I’d offer to drop you home and
hang on to every word<br />you said along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d like every status update you put up just to let you know
I read it. I’d make you<br />put up status updates just so I could like them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d cover your head when it rained, wrap my jacket around
you when it was cold,<br />hold your hand when we crossed the street, hold your hand
as we weaved through<br />a crowd, hold your hand for no reason whatsoever and
squeeze it gently<br />before letting go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d take you to exhibitions, plays, films, festivals,
concerts and carnivals.<br />I’d probably take you shopping. No, I would take you
shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d stay by your side when you were sick, make sure you took
your medication<br />on time, never on an empty stomach, and take you to the doctor<br />if your condition worsened. I’d nurse you back to health even though it meant<br />I
could fall ill the moment you recovered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d write you a poem and ten songs to go with it. I’d sing
you those songs<br />on days you needed to be told how beautiful you are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you said ‘Yes’, I’d revel in your success, brush away
your failures, push you<br />to try harder and give you a million reasons to refrain
from entertaining the thought<br />of giving up. I’d be a partner to your crimes, an
audience to your expression,<br />and the wall you often crave between you and the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you said ‘Yes’, I would do all of this and so much more,
in the right amount<br />of moderation, so you never felt you owed me anything but
always had just cause<br />to light up that smile. I would write a thesis about that
smile.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But, you never said ‘Yes’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because, I never asked.</span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-17432976703678719792014-04-17T17:56:00.001+05:302014-05-29T13:01:14.350+05:30Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Every person is a place. Some are bus-stops, others coffee shops. Some
dark alleys, others sun-kissed beaches. Every day, we shuttle in and out
and around music stores, art galleries, libraries, restaurants,
broadcast stations, cinema theatres, photo studios, motorcycle
workshops, football academies, lofty bars with empty stools, ATMs
without withdrawal limits, employment exchanges and technology hubs
erected in skin and bone. Long, short, under construction, under repair,
broken, one-way, two-way or toll-free, there are many roads to the same
place. And, some of them aren’t places at all. They are bridges we must
cross to get somewhere new. Or tunnels we must emerge from to keep our
purpose true. We spend each day traveling from person to person. And
when we’ve spent many hours wandering, discovering, visiting,
frequenting and deserting life’s many venues, some of us just want to go
home.</span></div>
Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-1842576650524436282014-02-14T14:13:00.002+05:302014-05-29T13:03:25.699+05:30The Fame Paradox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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greatness. It burns immortal, a warm glow that reminds us of the stature they
once occupied, and still do. The same light burns brighter for their progeny.
But, not in quite the same mellow timbre</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the young of a colossus, the
light is deafening. An inescapable reality, it stares them in the face from the
moment their eyes open. Through night and day, it is their unrelenting Sun, a
cruel reminder of life’s sole purpose. To live up to the name they’re deemed
fortunate to be born with. While the rest waltz through existence in the search
for meaning and a higher calling, theirs is predefined. Their benchmarks etched
in the sky, finish lines drawn before they learn to say ‘go’. The light teases
and taunts them at every turn, as society prods them to follow in hallowed
footsteps and occupy the circle it casts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the dawn of time, the children
of famous parents have been expected to outshine them. We can observe, barring
the odd exception, that famous men and women seldom come from famous parents or
give birth to children who grow to become equally if not more famed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most of us have wondered what it
would be like to be born to titans. Lives in place, world at our feet, a
sizeable serving of success and its many privileges without having to raise a
finger. But, we’ve overlooked the heat that is always on. And feeling it up
close, the gargantuan obligation to go one better, as we squirm under the shadow
of a giant we’re always being compared to, can get suffocating. For us world is
no stage, it’s a rancid lot of hecklers watching our every step, waiting for us
to fall, and ultimately fail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s simple, and becomes evident shortly.
By chasing fame and achieving it, are we building or derailing the lives of our
children? Are we landing them the luxury of a struggle-free upbringing or
substituting it for the greater struggle of rising to, and hopefully besting
our stature? Are we securing a precipice for future generations to look down at
creation from, or are we preparing them for an untimely roaring leap off the
edge? Is our quest noble or is it the veneer of our vanity, our constant need
for power and the recognition it begets? Does ‘I’m doing it for myself.’ have
more truth in it than we imagine? Do we go for gold or settle for scraps so our
children can swap silver spoons for blank slates? Are we who started with blank
slates obliged to leave blank slates for those to follow? If we forsake our thirst
for glory, will our children do the same for our grandchildren? Should we be
grateful to our parents for underachieving (achievement is subjective, but you
get the drift) or prepare to face an impending outburst from our children
against the pressure we have already begun piling on them? Is it better to be
born to a legend or to raise one?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Planes are just not my scene, brother.”<br /><br />It wasn't the beer talking. Going by the stories I've heard, and there are a million,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I belong to the small and therefore elite clique of unlucky airbenders. In fact, the only fairer-sexed company I’ve been graced with in the air, happened to be flying</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">into her wedding. So, resigning myself to the inevitable, I continued sipping<br />on my half-empty-for the-last-half-hour bottle of lager, engaging in conversations<br />drowned out by muffled high-intensity EDM. I had a flight to catch the next day<br />and much needed sleep before.<br /><br />I picked 6C because it was the unreserved aisle seat closest to the entrance.<br />I had discarded my fascination for window seats long ago, when I gathered<br />the inside of an aircraft offers more than the outside promises <i>(refer Aerodynamics)</i>.<br />5E was free, but it was middle. The universally scorned middle seat, a solo traveller's nightmare, seldom occupied by choice, was forever out of question.<br />Although, I have employed the <i>maximum probability</i> argument to fuel my optimism,<br />each of the many times I have been subjected to one. The results have been grossly<br />and consistently disappointing.<br />---<br /><br />The first to occupy my half-row, I was an eager gatekeeper anxiously awaiting the arrival<br />of two unknowns who would determine the course of my flight. But, my unfailing<br />anticipation died a fast death when seconds later, I found myself semi-standing,<br />wedged between my seat and the rotund middle-aged woman hastening her way<br />to the window, completely oblivious to the existence of my feet, and me.<br />To prevent further damage, I stood up and slid out to allow her husband in.<br />Resigning myself to the inevitable, a second time in 16-odd hours, I pulled out<br />my notepad and pen. Suddenly, there was precious work to be done and precious little<br />to finish it in. I had all but written my first words when the attendant announced,<br />“Boarding complete.” Muttering, “Yeah, I hear you.”, I reluctantly shut my tray table<br />and yanked out the inflight magazine hoping I could figure out what to snack on<br />before the altitude of the plane allowed me to finish crafting my print campaign.<br />On an aside, nailing a third headline can be more challenging than cracking<br />the campaign it is meant for. Restlessly testing the airline's instant<br />remedy for restlessness prescribed on page whatever, I intently rotated my right ankle<br />for the 10th time, left went first. Obviously, I didn't feel any different.<br />Then, I looked up.<br /><br />She stood two feet away, straining to thrust her handbag into the bustle<br />of the overhead bin. She was slender, mildly tanned, with dark blonde hair<br />tied into a tiny bun, in a half-sleeved white blouse and skinny-fit black jeans<br />with zip-down ankles. Beautiful, and unconventionally so. In a blink, she was home<br />in seat 5D, slippers off, buckled up, feet on seat, making an <i>On the plane.<br />See you soon.</i> call. I presumed Australian, her accent didn't help. We took off.<br />She plugged into her iPod and descended into a head-bobbing knee-rapping trance<br />any lover of music would readily associate with. In the air, I put pen to paper,<br />stopping frequently to watch her silently mouth a few verses as she soaked<br />in the groove. Smiling to myself as I struggled, I concluded good work is a product<br />of worthy distraction. Basking thoroughly in this newfound wisdom, my eyes fell<br />on the empty seat beside her. 5E. I cursed my luck, briefly.<br /><br />Midway through my expulsion, I watched her sink into the minimal recesses<br />her seat could afford. Her little eyes shut, she turned her head in my direction.<br />Still wired and sound asleep, she inspired me. The idea was laudable,<br /><i>Playlist Exchange</i>. How interesting would it be to swap playlists with the person<br />sitting in the next seat for the entire duration of a short flight? To know someone<br />intimately without saying a word? To capture a mood though music? To risk<br />insignificant revelations for fresh listening pleasure?<br /><br />The minutes piled on idly. I delved back into knitting evocative nothings, her timely<br />wrestling to get comfortable relegated to my peripheral vision. She awoke with<br />the landing announcement. She stretched, strained her neck and batted her eyelids<br />in adjustment. I was relieved, surprisingly. My uneasy, one-sided association with her<br />would be over soon.<br />---<br /><br />The flight landed on time. Deftly avoiding the desperate scurry to the shuttle bus,<br />I strolled in casually and wound my way to the centre, a sea of tightly-huddled bodies<br />on three sides and a wall to recline on. The last few passengers streamed in while<br />I scanned the bus. I wasn’t looking for anyone in particular. Maybe I was. Either way,<br />I found her. Seated in the last row. Staring out the window. Face flushed. Red-nosed.<br />Sobbing. Her contorted features barely reminiscent of those I’d spent a quarter-hour<br />trying to forget. She was a mess. Instinctively, I reached into my pocket and pulled out<br />my handy handkerchief. I looked at her, then down at my hand, then at her,<br />then at my hand. The routine ran its course as I worked out my approach. It ended<br />when I caught her looking at me about the 29th time I looked up towards her.<br />Caught off guard, I swung away. And then it struck me, I was trapped. The bus<br />had no room for even an honest intention to squeeze through to her.<br />‘I’ll meet her on the way out and offer her the kerchief if she still needs it.’<br />We alighted, she after me. She wasn’t crying anymore. She didn’t need anything.<br />---<br /><br />On my way to baggage claim, I mused. I whistled, within, aware of her presence<br />a few steps behind and assured that her personal storm had passed. I disputed<br />whether I should have pushed past the throng and made my offering,<br />whether it would have done her any good if I did, whether it would have changed<br />the rest of her day even though she appeared to have overcome her demons<br />without assistance? With these and similar wonderments humouring my brain,<br />I turned the corner en route the smoking room and caught her following me<br />from the corner of my eye. The response was swift and impulsive. Assuming she<br />wanted a cigarette, I held the door ajar. She didn’t, the ladies’ room<br />was two doors down. In seconds, I was at peace with this private embarrassment.<br />I sat down, shook my head, shook off the stupidity and smoked at leisure.<br />Ten minutes passed before I found myself at baggage claim. ‘She must have<br />left by now.’ Ten more minutes passed before I realised I was at the wrong counter.<br />---<br /><br />My faculties weren’t at their sharpest that afternoon. I knew exactly<br />whom to blame. I finally walked down the right side of the right baggage counter,<br />and lo, there she was, sitting on a trolley, coloured in a familiar shade of red, anxious<br />and fidgety. For some reason, I was no different. ‘Ok, so the luggage isn’t here.<br />Now, don’t encroach her vicinity. It’ll creep her out, if she has noticed you at all.<br />Let’s not mull over whether she has. Besides, the motion of the belt suggests your bag<br />will be coming out the other end.’ An about-turn and a few steps later, I took up<br />a position on the near end of the conveyor, one that ensured I would get my bag<br />the moment it made its way into the airport, one that ensured I could get the hell out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">of the airport without overstaying my arrival. In my line of sight, a billboard proclaiming superlative home loan rates loomed ominously. It didn’t take curiosity two seconds<br />to get the better of me, and I strayed gently sideways. She was standing now,<br />more upset than I had ever seen her, pretend studying the meaningless billboard<br />to avoid being seen by more than a handful. Scrutiny of the colourful bystanders<br />revealed she had no reason for worry. Everyone was caught up stressing about<br />luggage already long overdue. No one had noted her. None, but me.<br /><br />After light years of indecision, I managed to affix myself opposite her. Once more,<br />I felt the urge to reach out. I decided to write her a note of empathy, which I would<br />convey by way of the empty, yet moving, conveyor belt. Attracting her attention<br />by waving hysterically, I would prompt her to pick it up when the belt brought it to her.<br />There were intricacies I needed to consider, however. What if someone else picked<br />up the note? What if she dismissed my gesturing for a severe case<br />of cognitive retardation? What if she followed my gestures, picked up the note,<br />read it, but didn’t feel any better because of it? As is my habit, I let these thoughts<br />run their course while I paced the floor around my erstwhile position. Presently,<br />I arrived at the welcome conclusion that I couldn’t care less. I looked up. She was gone.<br />‘Was her bag not worth the wait? Did my indiscreet and recurring presence force<br />her to take up another position? Maybe she’s just gone to get a glass of water.’<br />Again, I was a rebel without cause. But, before I could wallow once more<br />in that lucrative cesspool lined with dejection and self-loathing,<br />surprise slapped me hard. She was walking towards me, trolley in tow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Stupefied, I watched her come, place her trolley beside me and sit on it cross-legged.<br />She appeared fine, I hadn’t managed to get a clean look at her face yet.<br />Seeing she wasn’t wired anymore, I unplugged my earphones and shoved them<br />in my pocket. The action wasn’t smooth and I’m sure she noticed. I stared hard<br />at the empty belt, stealing occasional glances at her. And predictably, I succumbed<br />to the intimidation that accompanies being at arm’s length from a thing of beauty.<br />I resumed my nervous-yet-apparently-casual-to-the-human-eye pacing,<br />ambling aimlessly. And while I ambled, she relapsed.<br /><br />From my roving vantage point, she started out with a blank expression<br />that bled mild tears amidst frequent texting. It progressed into her looking<br />downwards with both hands on her temple. Eventually, she buried her face<br />between her legs. I reached into my pocket, held my kerchief firm,<br />walked to my spot and looked down, at her. Head still buried.<br />‘Give her the hanky when she looks up? Pull up a trolley of my own<br />and sit next to her? Open with what the airline staff might be having for lunch?’<br />I didn’t have the nerve. She was daunting even in her vulnerability. ‘Let’s pace around<br />some more. Great exercise. Let her recover. Then, we’ll see.’ I turned, walked in circles<br />nearby, and returned a minute later.<br /><br />She was up, but a mother with her 6-year-old son had taken my place.<br />‘There goes that. Enough is enough. Write the damn note. Put it on the belt.<br />It’s still running for a reason. Lean forward, ask her to pick it up and get this<br />despicable urge to make her day out of your system forever.’ I took a few steps<br />backwards, pulled out my notebook and scribbled ‘Beautiful women<br />don’t look good crying.’ I crumpled the note and deposited it in the nearest bin.<br />Then, I wrote ‘Beautiful women shouldn’t cry. Whatever it is, it will pass. :)’<br />Somewhat satisfied, I folded the sheet. My loss for words was legitimate.<br /><br />Turning to proceed with my humble scheme, I met her eyes, looking dead straight<br />into mine. A piercing glare. Shaken, I pocketed the note and looked away.<br />‘What’s going on? Should I just go talk? Are we waiting for another sign?’<br />She faced the belt, the luggage had begun streaming in. ‘She’ll get her bag before<br />I get mine, and leave.’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />My bag came first. I took it, set it on a trolley and rummaged<br />within for my lighter, another custom. In the next few seconds, she got hers.<br />Heading to the taxi stand, she walked ten metres in front of me. Then, for some<br />strange reason, she pressed down on her brake handle and broke into a frantic run.<br />‘Was it me?’ I was awed but inertia prevailed. I didn’t allow myself<br />any further consternation. I stopped at an ATM, then wandered past stores,<br />sampling their wares in measured glimpses. Sure enough, as I idled into<br />the prepaid taxi queue, there she was, ahead in line. No thought this time.<br />I walked right into her. <br /><br />“Excuse me. Hi. I saw you crying in the bus earlier and I wanted to give you<br />my handkerchief but I couldn’t, because there were just too many people.”<br /><br />“Oh, you did? I had no idea.”<br /><br />“Yeah. And then later, as we were waiting for the luggage to arrive. You looked like<br />you could use a word or two so I thought of writing you a note and putting it on<br />the conveyor belt so it would go all the way around. I’d wave ‘Hey’ from the other end<br />so you’d know the note was for you.”<br /><br />“I’m so embarrassed but thanks. That’s very kind of you.”<br /><br />“Are you alright? Is everything ok?” <br /><br />“Yeah. It’s nothing. I’m just having, I’m having a very stressful day.”<br /><br />“Sure. Anyway, what I wanted to do didn’t happen. But, I’ve got the note with me<br />and I want you to have it.”<br /><br />I handed her the note.<br />“Have a nice day.” <br /><br />I turned away and then bounced back, she was still clutching it.<br />“You can read it now, it’s only two lines anyway.”<br /><br />I soon realised I had cut ahead in line, so I went around and took my place behind her.<br />The counter next to ours freed up, the man behind it beckoned me. I leaned forward.<br />“You’re the one having a stressful day, go.” <br /><br />“Thanks.”<br />She wheeled her way to the window. The next second, my counter freed up.<br />I transacted alongside her, catching the odd strain in her voice like I would<br />strain to catch a tune. When I finished, she had disappeared.<br />---<br /><br />Outside the airport, the Sun was intense, but forgiving. It was hot, I was warm.<br />The deed was done. My mission complete. Or, was it? Like a reflex, I sought her.<br />I could only hope my simplistic words would bear my earnestness. Their effects,<br />much like the effects of my every interaction to date, were beyond my control.<br />Wrapping myself in this truth, I marched towards the yellow-topped rundown chariot<br />that would take me home. Again, she was all that stood in between.<br />‘This is getting old.’<br /><br />While attendants scrambled to get her the next available cab, I stood calm,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">propped on the railing and gazing into the distance, certain she didn’t know I was there.<br />Shortly, a cab arrived. She lifted her head while picking up her bags,<br />and shot me in the chest.<br /><br />“Bye.”<br /><br />Point-blank. I reeled. One word, three letters, the answer to every question<br />I had asked myself that morning. Her face clear, she was radiant, grinning, settled,<br />a far cry from the sombre shade I had made my acquaintance with. I nodded<br />in acknowledgement and half-smiled right back. Her manner, her disposition,<br />their change, were all pleasantly unsettling.<br /><br />She made her exit. I savoured my salvation. ‘You get a single precise instant in time<br />to push a life into the better. And when it passes, your compassion, its abundance,<br />your intentions, their honesty, all you feel and are capable of feeling, count for nothing.<br />No walk in the park, running the risk of seeming desperate and sounding stupid,<br />willingly signing up for judgement. Pretty darn suicidal. But, after that moment passes,<br />you have only yourself to live with. That, you could definitely do without.’ <br /><br />My taxi arrived five minutes later. Snug in my seat, I hit rewind. ‘If I see her once more,<br />I’ll have to stop her.’ At ‘her’, I drove past her on the highway. I didn’t pull over. <br />‘It wouldn’t be much of a story if we met again.’</span></div>
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Predict the end</span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-35840674960369837072012-09-17T12:20:00.000+05:302012-09-17T12:24:03.226+05:30Nothing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A couple bonking.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A drunk fighting.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A friend writing.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A day dawning.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A guard yawning.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A sculpture shaping.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A camera taping.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Nothing.’</span></span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-40356012450725160652012-08-17T00:02:00.001+05:302017-04-07T03:01:54.401+05:30Red<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The light shone red. The autorickshaw jerked to a grinding
halt. A second early,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and I would have been alongside the white car that was
hastily vanishing</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from my present line of sight.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He pulled up casually in his three-wheeled truck, in no real
hurry I now imagine.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I stared long and hard at the blaring circular hurdle
in my tumultuous race</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the railway station, he made me look the other way, at
him. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bursting gently into a heartfelt rendition of 'Tujhe Na
Dekhoon To Chain</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mujhe Aata Nahi Hai', a popular 90s Hindi film song, he unhinged
my frown</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and set my resources pacing like a father-to-be outside a delivery
room.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On impulse, I asked him, after waiting a few seconds for a
break in the chorus,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'Kaunsi pickchar?' <i>Which
film? </i>Then, before he could make an effort to answer,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ventured, ‘Rahul
Roy par filmaya gaya tha? Junoon? Junoon.’</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Did
the song feature Rahul Roy? From the movie Junoon?</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Must have been Junoon.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He nodded in agreement, ‘15 saal puraana gaana hai. Gaate
phirte the jab</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pehli baar pyar hua.’ <i>The
song is 15 years old. I used to keep singing it</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>when I fell in love the first
time. </i>I let out an inward grin. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Without standing on ceremony, he humbly asked me for a
cigarette, followed by a light,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">both of which I gladly parted with. Passing the
lighter back, he strode once more</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">down his lane of lyrical nostalgia, punctuated
in greater variation this time around.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I threw in the odd line, without
interruption, with equal soul. When he stopped,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I asked him where he was
headed. He said something the whirr of passing traffic</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drowned out entirely.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The light flashed green. As he turned his noisy engine on,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
waved him goodbye shouting, ‘Gaate chalo. Khush raho.’ <i>Keep singing. Stay happy.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He laughed and waving back in return, trained his eyes on
the road.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As my auto lumbered ahead, I mulled, ‘It wasn’t Junoon.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Phir Teri
Kahani Yaad Aayi. That’s the film.’ I was wrong. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we pulled into the next signal, I looked out and saw that
the truck</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">had come to a halt three vehicles behind us. A part of me wanted to
step out at once</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and present the assumed correction. But, I decided against ruining
the symphony</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that had stemmed from our ignorance, and stuck to my seat.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The red light had changed much. Sure, I was a cigarette shy.
But, that wasn’t it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My singing friend-for-a-minute had, with his song and
light-hearted manner eased me</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the anxiety that had consumed me moments
before, the monstrous apprehension</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that envelops anyone accustomed to the
unpredictability of city traffic especially</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">when a train or a flight needs
catching inside peak hours. In that solitary moment,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he spirited away a part of
me I needed losing and left me with a memory that will linger.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was much humming inside the auto in the half hour that followed,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and much more in the days to come. Some of it has lasted to this moment. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, in case you’re still wondering, the movie was Rang.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I intend to save the song for the next time I find love.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-80096311167019165462012-05-22T11:54:00.000+05:302012-05-22T11:58:45.649+05:30Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The night is at its darkest best<br />
A girl nestles into fleeting rest<br />
Clearing day from clouded head<br />
She greets the stranger in her bed<br />
<br />
Politeness seems to weigh her down<br />
Her instinct quells to free a frown<br />
Not who or why, it's how she asks<br />
The stranger wears a mirror's mask<br />
<br />
I thought there lives just one of me<br />
Are you the girl I used to be?<br />
The echo floods her empty sheets<br />
Tugs heavily at her heavy feet<br />
<br />
The silence staring her in the face<br />
Is one she's struggled to embrace<br />
Her wonder can't conceal her guilt<br />
She feels the shiver of a tectonic tilt<br />
<br />
She is the one she let slip away<br />
To a tackle borne in course of play<br />
The cloak she chose to cast aside<br />
In her solemn quest for fickle pride<br />
<br />
This shade of her has lost its hue<br />
As colourful as the soil is blue<br />
Fading faster than Icarus fell<br />
She flickers into her shrinking shell<br />
<br />
The girl rubs her eyes in disbelief<br />
Her cheeks moist, she knows relief<br />
Her breath curls inside a lasting sigh<br />
I am good reason to make me cry</div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-81163629764354418382012-03-21T23:54:00.000+05:302012-03-21T23:54:10.098+05:30I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I choose not to grow<br />
I choose not to know<br />
I choose to remain<br />
I choose not to flow<br />
<br />
I am more than just a welcome vent<br />
I am more than just a feeble dent<br />
I am more or less the same as me<br />
I am more than just a just intent<br />
<br />
I hold within a faltering will<br />
I hold within a humble thrill<br />
I hold much I should forego<br />
I hold within a void to kill<br />
<br />
I am not the answer you seek to find<br />
I am not the answer to peace of mind<br />
I am not a door you can't get through<br />
I am not the answer time swept behind<br />
<br />
I hope to bend my view<br />
I hope to start over new<br />
I hope because it's all I own<br />
I hope to make sense to you</div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-28388586809464407122012-01-04T22:25:00.002+05:302012-03-27T23:54:12.725+05:30Ride<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My head is a bus<br />
A dozen-winged octopus<br />
Take a ride if you will, it won't hurt<br />
It brakes like a dream, kicks up no dirt<br />
<br />
There is a place I've set aside<br />
At the window to this hazy glide<br />
The seats recline to soak your sins<br />
In this twisted deck, I am your prince<br />
<br />
Night and dark, you clutch the heat<br />
Warmth between bodies that never meet<br />
You travel without moving, carried by a whim<br />
By affectionate curse and hateful hymn<br />
<br />
Coasting through a simple spell<br />
You cast your net into the well<br />
Bait is tender, the catch too steep<br />
Short triumph peering into rapid-eyed sleep<br />
<br />
Hills of reason, towers of hope<br />
An elusive nether where rebels elope<br />
Slave to journey, sworn to cause<br />
My wanderlust, to think is to pause</div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-41373091032616784132011-12-11T00:18:00.003+05:302011-12-11T00:21:10.219+05:30Write I Must<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to write but words fail me.<br />
<br />
Let's take a moment and consider my options.<br />
Make that a few moments.<br />
<br />
I could mull over existence and her many virtues.<br />
Spin a yarn of passionate unromance that would <br />
wind its way into your next conversation with me.<br />
<br />
Maybe my last fall from grace would appetise your attention.<br />
The hundreds that preceded would do just as well.<br />
<br />
An ode to accomplishment, an elegy to desire,<br />
a sonnet to anarchy or a thesis on the art of shoveling.<br />
<br />
I could demystify the irreverence of the irrelevant.<br />
Or the solitude of the destitute.<br />
<br />
Dwelling on basic courtesies might easily be<br />
swapped with a lesson in gratitude. Maybe fortitude.<br />
<br />
The lusts of a rising phoenix could well be juxtaposed<br />
with the cries of a lost chihuahua mistaken for a wild hare.<br />
<br />
The storming of the Bastille or the Earl Grey<br />
that never made it to the tea party.<br />
<br />
The roving libido of the French premier could hold its own<br />
to the modest ambitions of second coming<br />
of the father of the world's largest democracy.<br />
<br />
Maybe a concoction of lofty language<br />
laced with a symphony of unparliamentary anecdotes.<br />
Some non sequitur. Yes, I fancy the vernacular.<br />
<br />
I want to write but words fail me.</span></div></div>Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01107914853060101504noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6205840310691846898.post-3245895718373159832011-09-21T11:52:00.014+05:302017-04-07T02:53:21.717+05:30Aerodynamics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The ground staff have just made their exit and I’m sure the last thing on your mind</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">is a whimsical pen at play. Down the aisle I see you, a tail of hair, an odd elbow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">if I’m lucky. I remember when I saw you first, moments ago at the door, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">as I streamed in alongside an anxious flurry of veterans and virgins. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">You must have mouthed the customary ‘Good evening.’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">or ‘Welcome aboard.’ or ‘How are you?’ It doesn’t matter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I don’t remember. It wasn’t your words that made those split-seconds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">worth another visit. Was it the cheeky half-grin accompanying them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The cabin in-charge for the day, Nancy she calls herself, holds the receiver to her lips</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">as she rattles off a well-rehearsed safety briefing. I look up. A seat belt has never assumed such inviting proportions. As your hands make their way through oxygen mask and life-jacket, twice over, I wonder why I’d never paid attention</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">to these things before. We’re about to take off when you prance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">around with a bag, frantically seeking a generous overhead bin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">It isn’t until you’ve tried at least seven that you find one offering just enough, above me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I inhale. Your aroma is as strong as it is invigorating. An inaudible sigh escapes within.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I watch you and turn away, smiling without cause or concern. The flight is sprinkled</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">with cursory interaction and your unintentional brushing of my arm in your stride. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The air is made pleasant by good air conditioning working in tandem with your gentle presence. Meanwhile, Nancy unconsciously wages a desperate war to seize</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">my attention. Another day, and she’d have had more than her share. So I twist,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">and stretch, consider sleep, then shut the thought, and all the while your nimble feet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">walk past mine at intervals so regular, it makes me think you’ve caught</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">a whiff of my devotion. I can only wish my words will mean something to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I haven’t really done this before. Then again, I haven’t really come across</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Your charms are immense. You make me delight in a sandwich</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I would have never picked off a menu. I observe many a pair of eyes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">shadowing your every move, and as we head into another bout of turbulence,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I take my chance with telepathy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Hello. I assume you must be content having my mind at your disposal since</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">the time I stepped into your aerial kingdom. It isn’t easy sitting where I sit,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">watching you go about your routine while the desire to converse with you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">eats me from within. But, I won’t act on this impulse. I won’t badger you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">with the likes of ‘A bottle of water, please.’ and ‘Do you have today’s paper?’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I won’t even give you the opportunity to ask me to set my seat-back upright</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">or close my tray table. I won’t unbuckle my seat belt, even when the sign is off,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">or bother to find out what the rest of your crew looks like. I’ll stay awake</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">and silence the urge to count sheep, no matter how drowsy the aerated beverage</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> I bought from you makes me. I won’t mull over my existence</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">before and after this journey. I won’t stare, I won’t swear. I’ll stay put in my seat,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">much to the dismay of the passengers beside me, till I hear the aerobridge</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">is in place. I’ll smile often, laugh a little and savour the purple sky</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">illuminated by the cries of two infants, both blissfully unaware of this brief mention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I’ll return your grin when I disembark. No words will be spoken.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">You won’t know of this letter. But, that’s alright.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">You’ve had me for over two hours and forty minutes. </span></span></div>
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