tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39204467252430220372024-03-13T19:11:14.496+05:30run for your livesKhushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-51109109548803994202023-12-02T10:01:00.001+05:302023-12-02T10:01:39.238+05:30 Living Proof<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px;">I knew you for years before I knew you.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You’ve been with me since I was born. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This whole time</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I’ve loved you and feared you and carried you</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As I will the rest of my life.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it’s all rather unbelievable</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You were an imaginary friend for so long </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before I literally made you up. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My honey, my cheer, </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The person with whom I want to share all things I hold dear </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It is magical to know you and to have known you before you</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You are wonderful and unreal</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My new-new.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I am blessed to know this intimacy </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">that overwhelms me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Physics was once a man to me,</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But no one teaches superimposition like a baby</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">History carefully twisted and folded down,</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Block by block, link by link</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">into the most meaningful nothing</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You are a quantum event</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Silly of me not to see… </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I called it a biological clock</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But that pit in my stomach was just me feeling the undeniable gravity</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">the potential energy</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Of you.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You’ve existed forever as nothing</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Now you are everything</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s hard to explain but</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I’m so lucky you helped me understand it.</span></p>Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-1262611383741783892023-05-18T21:06:00.002+05:302023-05-19T20:26:52.447+05:30Global Warning <p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Promises made to me are not promises at all, just noise that occurred in my presence</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I am as human to you as another treasured tool, your iPhone perhaps</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Maybe that’s why you think I should be extraordinarily grateful for any human right you afford me </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Maybe that’s why you are so incensed that I will not sit back quietly</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You can keep punishing me</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Didn’t anyone ever tell you that my skin won’t crack so easily? </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Satyagraha is my history.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We are still a chaotic mist teetering on the precipice of valid existence </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You can turn the heat up for a false bump with this sham recession </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(Should I die if I can’t earn a living?)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But it will be as short-lived as any pump and dump (P&D)</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Global warming is melting away the pretense of “competing priorities”</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In a poetic paradox </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We are slowly condensing into a cohesive sea of atomic affinity </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">and direction </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Maybe not today </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But one day</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I will be a tidal wave.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s already happening.</span></p>Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-52952475269535488212021-06-25T06:40:00.004+05:302021-06-25T06:40:51.109+05:30Suicidal<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">Sometimes I dream that you’re dead</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You are lying there lifeless</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Pale and flaccid </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">It’s the first time I feel peace around you</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">It feels strange to be in your presence </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Without any fear</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">To be seen and heard</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Even with you in the room.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My mind is oddly quiet</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No internal broadcast of the cruel things you’ve said or could say</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No soundless screams of frustration</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No tentative shivering about what might set you off</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No breakneck evaluating of safe or unsafe to share</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">It’s just you and me in the moment</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Maybe this is why I’ve always wanted to die </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">In my sleep</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Death feels a lot like love</span></p>Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-77477595436489948452021-03-21T21:15:00.000+05:302021-03-21T21:15:36.640+05:30Overwriting<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">To all the children I was compared to:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><br /><span class="s1"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You are more than just a family friend or cousin to me</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I have been thinking about you for years</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">At first involuntarily, </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">now habitually </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Usually unknowingly.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You may not know it </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">As you go on with your education, jobs, relationships, parenthood and whatever else you are doing</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I am quietly stacking myself against you</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Everything from my wealth to my weight and my mind and my skin </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You are so much better than me</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My pillow is wet from my eternal inadequacy </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My fists are clenched in anger that breeds pain</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Somewhere in between the hours of berating </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">And seconds of adrenalin </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">that rushed in every time I was slapped, punched, choked or shoved or across a room </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I somehow created a tape of put downs in my head</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">That reliably plays </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">on every single one of my harder days </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">even all these years and miles away </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I know you could “never imagine”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You might choose not to believe</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I am just the over-sharing, crazy lady</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">It’s ok, I’m mainly speaking to those like me </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">“I see you</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I believe you</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">You are not alone</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">#metoo”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Press that red button </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I want to hear your voice</span></p>Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-17934075995814127472020-06-24T02:16:00.002+05:302020-06-24T02:26:12.751+05:30Book Review: Educated by Tara Westover<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Father’s day and the weeks surrounding it have never been an easy time for me. This one was made harder than others because I’ve been harrowing myself about finishing a book for my work book club. It’s called </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Educated-international-bestselling-Tara-Westover-ebook/dp/B07142R12X" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Educated,”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and it’s by Tara Westover. I cannot recommend it enough. I’ve had over a month-and-a-half to read it, but I’ve not been able to get through more than a few pages at a time without crying, or having a senseless fight with my partner that’s really about the discord in my soul that the book played like a fiddle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Tara would recount hearing endless lectures about the Illuminati, the brain-washing ways of conventional schooling, or the sacrilegious frivolity of the lives of everyone other than her family; she would write about dodging her father’s volatile moods, experiencing in denial her older brother’s bullying, verbal and physical abuse and feeling betrayed as her mother (primarily) and other family members flip-flopped between resisting and perpetuating the dark environment she lived in-- and as I read her words, I would collapse into a pain I find impossible to describe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">But even while the eerie familiarity I felt towards Tara- despite my wildly different cultural and racial circumstances- struck hard and heavy in the moments that she recounts the traumatic events, ideologies and emotional realities that she lived through, the time she spent uncovering her inner dialogue and intellectual journey hit much harder. As I read the book, it was difficult reliving the trauma of a teacher kicking me out of a level of math I somehow tested into when she found out I lacked the ability to perform long division in eleventh grade (after a spotty history of formal schooling). However, it was really gut-churning to relive the cognitive process of unlearning self-loathing through intellectual exploration. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Tara gravitated to historiography to relearn her own learning of self in much the same way I exploded when I was exposed to the study of epistemology. I believe it is not coincidental to surviving abuse that I cannot fathom studying any discipline, no matter how perfunctorily, without engaging in a critical history of it. Tara’s angry emails to her parents as she learned about the neurocognitive damage her abusive childhood had left her with are not dissimilar to emails I’ve written, and phone calls I’ve had. Sadly, neither is her raw and eternal yearning for a less warped love from her parents and siblings; her immutable desire to fit into the topographic, familial, cultural and whole history of herself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For me, that is what is at the core of the pain of domestic abuse-- it forces you to divorce your own self, and you have to walk a steep and treacherous path back to first knowing, and then loving the person you really are. The damage of an abuser is never just the damage of one person. People often forget that especially with childhood abuse, it takes a village of bystanders and suppressors to perpetuate the abuse. Countless people neglect, gaslight and abandon you when you are abused. They cast so much doubt on you, that you doubt yourself and fear forming real beliefs. They fail to remember things they have seen, or they support you in one moment only to turn their backs on you in the next-- and so, one after another, the countless enablers of the abuser decimate your belief in humanity and eventually, in your own self. Sometimes, you can rationalize the actions of your abuser because you see them as victims of abuse themselves. But seeing all these other people enable the abuse is almost never comprehensible. </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Educated-international-bestselling-Tara-Westover-ebook/dp/B07142R12X" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You really should read the book</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Tara goes through this in so many of the same ways I did, and reveals it more emphatically and eloquently than I can. Even as I type these words, the enabling voices ring loudly in my ears “don’t air your dirty laundry in public.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">But I have something to say to all those voices today: “SHUT UP. You are wrong.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Tara airing her dirty laundry in public is what is restoring the faith in humanity that you took away from me when you didn’t say or do anything about the abuse you witnessed. She is the one who reminds me that for every auntie who chose to stay quiet as she witnessed evidence of abuse as a five-to-eight-year-old me bathed with her daughter, there is a Tara somewhere who will not be afraid to speak up. That for every tuition teacher who stands dumbfounded and watches me get flung across a room by someone who should be protecting me, there is a Tara somewhere who will call what she sees out. Tara speaking out about how her battered, neglected and devastated inner child stares back at her from mirrors, causes her to rage at her parents and have panic attacks and mental breakdowns in her mid-late twenties is what is helping me accept, nurture and heal my own inner child, who wonders why this is so hard, even when I’m so old and so far away. Tara revealing her own imperfections during this journey are allowing me to forgive mine. Receiving empathy is often a foreign experience for survivors of abuse, especially when it comes to empathy for our own selves; and my empathy for Tara is fueling my empathy for me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something that all of you who blithely advise survivors of abuse to “forgive,” “let go of anger” and “release negativity” should understand is that none of this happens without facing the grave reality of abuse. Tara, recounting a college lecture on Isaiah Berlin gave an instinct buried within me words in her book: “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">negative liberty… is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action...Positive liberty...is freedom from internal constraints...it is self-mastery, the rule of the self, by the self.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” To release negativity is an incomplete state. Neutrality is nothing to aspire to. But, to embrace positivity, we have to come face-to-face with our realities, and those realities include our realities of abuse. To let go of our anger, we must see change. To see change, we must generate it. And that will never occur in silence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Today, I am at a better place with forgiveness than I have ever been. I am not angry as I write this. I have empathy for myself as I accept that I have had both perfect and imperfect reactions to the abuse I survived. That has manifested into peace. I feel like I’m doing my part to effect change. I don’t want those who have abused me or enabled the abuse to eat crow. Absolutely not. As I have mentioned, the sad yet liberating reality of surviving childhood abuse is that it doesn’t erase your love at all. If anything, it amplifies your need for receiving and expressing it. I’m writing today to send that love out to those who need it. I’m writing to remind others that we are out there, and we need you to use your voices and resources to be our allies. I’m writing to ask you to be kinder to the people you encounter because some of them are going through a whole lot. I’m writing to tell you that we can do better than simply eschewing negativity by actively generating positive change. I’m writing to tell my friends and family who need someone to stand by them as they climb out of a dark pit that I am here. I believe you. I want to hear your story. I know you deserve better. You are loved. </span></span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-72712266186347106132020-04-25T21:31:00.003+05:302020-04-25T22:14:17.315+05:30Her Loudspeaker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I am sorry you are trapped with me.</span><br />
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<span class="s1">Honestly, it’s a feeling I often feel.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I know how it is when it’s confusing to hope.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Let me tell you how I cope...</span><br />
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1">I enter this weird place of fantasy where</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I wish for magical devices like:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Scales that would show the weight of all my invisible work! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Cameras that would capture the beautiful workings of my chore-generating thoughts!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I frolic within works of modern art that are not yet created:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am a gorgeous witch,</span></div>
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<span class="s1">taking my turn to </span></div>
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<span class="s1">ride and repurpose </span></div>
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<span class="s1">a large variety of brooms that have been employed in the inhumane cleansing </span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">of that horrible discontent feeling </span></div>
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<span class="s1">when you know others are dying for your safety.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">I am the queen that beat a rigged game of three-card-Monty.</span></div>
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<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">Finally, the two wrinkled white devils have gone </span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">From calling my culture and womanhood hysterical and weak, calling my dark-skin evil or violent or stupid or lazy</span></div>
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<span class="s1">To denouncing currency as something that can buy only the comfort of feeling like you have </span><span class="s2" style="font-style: italic;">earned</span><span class="s1"> the right to abuse your privilege </span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">They are finally willing to admit the <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>unsustainability of </span></div>
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<span class="s1">just “looking out for yourself” or refusing to “worry about everybody”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">In unison they hail me, once the:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“nagging bitch” who is “surprisingly articulate,” and “unreasonably precocious,” continually “asking for too much.” </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Today, their righteous queen.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Sometimes the magical devices and imaginative escapades are not enough.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Don’t fret; there is something that always works better than all the others.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s the one where I honor our mothers:</span></div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">From the first moment I can remember she has </span></div>
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<span class="s1">given me advice, </span><br />
<span class="s1">urged me to improve, </span><br />
<span class="s1">reminded me to think ahead, </span><br />
<span class="s1">told me to think about everyone else first </span><br />
and take it in my stride when they think of me last.</div>
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<span class="s1"></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1">I play her on a loop in my head</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">“It’s easier if you rinse it, your two minutes will save me five”</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">“You have to be willing to work twice as hard as everyone else”</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">“The one lesson I hope you learn is never to depend on anybody” </span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">“They will take the chance if you give it to them”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It helps me see </span><br />
<span class="s1">why the cognitive dissonance</span><br />
is so much heavier for me</div>
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<span class="s1">When I hear chatter about independence and free will, </span><br />
<span class="s1">I also remember how digestible</span> society finds modern slavery</div>
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<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">And every time I catch myself wanting a real moment of solitude</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">I remember that her most constant words ring far too true:</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“You can never think about just you.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">I am sorry you’re trapped with the deafening person I am really,</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">But I know you can understand why the more important vow to me </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Is my painstaking ability to be</span></div>
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<span class="s1">her loudspeaker. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-89136368162511260282019-12-30T03:04:00.002+05:302019-12-30T03:04:59.253+05:30Endless<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">It is hard not to feel your absence</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The memories I cannot yet allow </span></div>
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<span class="s1">are now</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Boundaries</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Which cage me into a narrow space of being</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A space with little room</span></div>
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<span class="s1">for change </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Or patience </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Or understanding. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1">And grief knapps everything.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It gives</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Smiles, sugar, butter, tea,</span></div>
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<span class="s1">a sharp edge.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Still, shanks can be used</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">To cut yourself free.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><br /></span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">You always said,</span></div>
<div class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span class="s1">“The only way out is through.”</span></div>
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<span class="s1">But</span></div>
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<span class="s1">It’s an endless walk, my love for you.</span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-31093091694846051202018-05-02T01:52:00.000+05:302018-05-09T23:46:47.654+05:30Thomas and Friends, Ep. 102701<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>This fight was never between us,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>So it feels strange that the silence is. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>And if you are waiting on me to speak,</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>I want you to know all this:</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><u>Thomas and Friends, Ep. 102701</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Siblings are like trains on the same track,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">A tragic wreck for one is but</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">A nail biting delay for the other.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I want you to have your own journey.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">While I know of old debris </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">that you may come across,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I hope your narrative can place it in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">some kind of glad treasure-box:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">This is why I am clutching so tightly to mine.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">But one day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">When our tracks are changed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Perhaps we can reflect then:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">on our vastly different engines;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">the dryness of my noisy gears,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);">corroded by years of salty tears.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">And so when it is long passed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">We will finally get our signals uncrossed:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Separate the steam from the smoke, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">backtrack, restore blown stacks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, please know:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I love you.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I have a happy ear perked for your whistle,</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">And at the inevitable end of the embargo:</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Also, a happy heart with room for your cargo.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">This is not derailed, </span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">we are just side-tracked—</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">there is no grade to make, </span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">no end on this line:</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">we will always be fine.</span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-5953770823130668222018-04-20T22:30:00.000+05:302018-05-02T01:51:22.653+05:30Guardian Angel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is the same plate </span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My fork scratched years ago</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a little bit of me etched in it.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hidden in the gold-maroon of its border,</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is the ghost of me</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For your consumption</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am also hidden somewhere in your thoughts,</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In your unconscious responses. </span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps, in your enjoyment of glitter.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am happy with this past.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My wishes are glad.</span></div>
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Piecemeal-me is nourishing:</span></div>
<br />
<div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The spirit is no poltergeist.</span></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-32274829099870913562017-06-12T05:44:00.003+05:302017-06-12T05:46:04.746+05:30Budgets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">At</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Graveyard hour</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Your body crushes me.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Bones are stones.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Insomniacs together,</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Blaming the other:</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">A future of guilt</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Victims of </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">pointless stress;</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Punch clocks</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">As we lie in the </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Brightest darkness</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Every breath, every micro-movement</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">We are playing </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">monkeys jumping on the bed </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">There is some red, </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Some dazzling blue:</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">in the purple of my</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Black-eye.</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Oh honey,</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Lady liberty won't bleach </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">our linens white </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">anymore </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">So sleep on the floor</span></div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 17pt;">Or bleed more frugally </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-25257106196484276792016-12-14T13:01:00.002+05:302016-12-14T13:08:20.513+05:30A Post-factual Romance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I met you in a magic way</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The morning after </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A long night </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When my laughter rang strong</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think you tasted my </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Heartbeat-shade-lipstick</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the alleyway kiss of a lifetime </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And guessed </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that I come from a time that remembers </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blood must be pumped into the brain</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before its first command is spoken</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are also well versed in the </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">weaknesses of brains</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tricks of perception</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, there are facts of reality</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But we all know the word is fiction</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spaceships don’t scare those who remember</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">oxygen is just a group of letters</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You pushed me</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Against the cold-graffiti-shutters</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I felt my back press onto a warm bed of feathers</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That was the moment I knew </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">brave-lovemaker</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your art is building the world I want</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A world where the heart is remembered</span></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-49029579780308608202016-12-14T13:00:00.001+05:302016-12-14T13:09:12.243+05:30Lost Coverage <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a tactile love</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that grabs you in your sleep</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A love of</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">kisses that once killed Keats</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We live in a world of tailgating </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">easy lovers</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">brashly hopeful for a fortunate accident</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the memory of touch </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is from a back-alley affair</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the kind that makes overfull stomachs ache</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and windswept hairs stand </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as we frigidly shake</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Naked, uninsured</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A blue-road accident</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">unwitnessed, unfortunate</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">leaves me nothing but a scar</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in settlement</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">be warned that</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a left-handed lover </span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">does not negotiate</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for years to come you will receive</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Morpheus-Mail</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">bills to remind you that</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your damages </span></div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">must still be paid</span></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-91246376996018238772016-11-08T13:05:00.000+05:302016-12-14T14:39:07.431+05:30Sail On, Silver Girl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A puppet of hate is only</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As much as the connectomes</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(semi-consciously)</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pulling the strings</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are the food we eat</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the air we breathe</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the water we drink</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
If we are to unite the world with us,<br />
then:<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
We must share our organic bread,<br />
plant trees also in our neighbors’ yards<br />
publish blueprints for clean water<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Let us not mistake fear for hate<br />
Let us seek to understand<br />
And let us remember hope<br />
everyday<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
For each of our troubles is all consuming<br />
And each of our stories will be quilted<br />
into the blanket for an inevitable winter<br />
<br />
Let more of us be made of wool than of paper<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Love is remembering<br />
That every one of our neighbors<br />
is made from love<br />
and only schooled in ideology<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Listening is hard work<br />
But it is knowing the tune<br />
That makes for song<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
And music exists equally<br />
in city; village; church and crackhouse.</div>
</span></div>
</div>
Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-37452542120366947882016-03-07T05:53:00.000+05:302016-12-14T13:07:53.698+05:30Intimacy & Inflation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a lane for slow walkers:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a graduated pipette carefully </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Avoid brittle bones;</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of your nose</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like Grand Central, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are even sweeter,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For my pink-eye. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A journey of recovery. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-50097041028316643732015-10-13T17:34:00.003+05:302015-10-15T00:33:24.153+05:30Sleepshead Bed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They say that in a lover’s bed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lies a tiny, little death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You think</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is not an endless pit to dread, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your lover’s bed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is a soft and warm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sleep’s hard to come by in a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but not this little everyday death:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You’ll just keep their bedbugs fed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Such are the quiet labors of love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes we bleed to save them blood, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sink our backs into broken coils,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wonder if we’ll leave a mark behind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They’re sharing their blankets, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Squeezing me in; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Surely their bed isn’t just a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">plush, lidless, coffin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t invite fear to your lover’s bed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She’ll whisper in their weary ear: and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lovers never hesitate to forget. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like the tip-of-tongue joy of meals, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our fingers tell us how we really feel,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until our wretched lovers’ broken beds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prevent it from getting to our heads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are morbid lands, the downy, almost pyres</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where our lovers nightly retire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dangerous places where we willfully</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lie whilst sharing our bread;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what of our own, carefully made bed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our familiar sheets will not tickle, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But we know that even self-lovers are fickle—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So we make a safer bet, that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">four hands will more readily suggest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">companionship than two</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so we dream, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As lovers in beds often do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happily loved until they fall asleep:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A stupor of forgetting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That love is a gift of giving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And just like that, in one fell sweep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We’re lying at our lover’s bed’s wobbly feet, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prepared to mend the breached orifice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Face the curse which persists: reality must suffice </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In our tiny, little afterlife. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-46685867452322703482015-09-10T10:49:00.000+05:302015-09-10T11:08:33.827+05:30Translation: Kehne Ko Jashn-e-Bahaara Hai (Javed Akhtar)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Hearsay is that it’s time </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">for a</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> celebration of blossoms, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">(some call it spring);</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But it seems that today, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the sight of this </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">causes </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">love anguish </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to behold.</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A so-called celebration, a</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Purely nominal, titular spring, for</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">What court of spring-seasons </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">can proceed lacking the participation </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">of such an </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">essential guest?</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Yes, when love’s in distress: </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even fragrance is sullen, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">she shies away from the flowers </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">in the garden.</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some grief is hidden in the portiere, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">an unlikely</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(but temporarily befitting)</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">alias for atmosphere; </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">whose expansive vacuum has been </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">(oddly) thinned by this </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">lovelorn circumstance. </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Everything seems pastel, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The views are subdued, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The very threads of time are torpid, drowsy. </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Remaining suspended in our hearts </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">is lost chatter,</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">as if to marinate us,</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> tenderize us</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in anticipation </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">of love’s return to spring. </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How might I articulate my grouse?</span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am presently </span><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">consumed </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by thoughts of how to settle</span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">whether or not I might claim him intimate.</span></pre>
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For although we traverse together, </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the distances are between <i>us...</i></span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Akin the opposite banks of a single river, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">we do not meet:</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We are as aloof from one another as our destination. </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">We are near each other, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">and yet, we are not close— </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">I cannot consent to this pain! </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">This interval amidst us</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">is a (perplexing) </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">glass wall. </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything is tepid,</span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When love is tormented. </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This fake, namesake</span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of spring</span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">aggrieves me. </span></pre>
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The tune I</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">’d </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">heard </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is the one my heart had chosen. </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But what strange destiny has time </span></pre>
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cannot imagine that he is happy </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">while I sit here, desolate. </span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Indeed, in our </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">rendezvous</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">it is as if we are commingled in loneliness.</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Isolated together, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Although we encounter the other, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">we never meet. </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Ah!</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Nothing is impossible in </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">this alien springtime where</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">the flowers blossom without ever blooming.</span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">
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<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Our eyes see the spring, </span></span></pre>
<pre style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">But our hearts know it is autumn. </span></span></pre>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Almost true:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Blasphemy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">—you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A flimsy promise </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I suspect it was known, that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your plan was homegrown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I, a nescient botanist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">archetypal fool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You convinced me to campaign</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For a weed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as if, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">perchance, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it were a flower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Illusion of ardor </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hooked to the bait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did not know that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Intrigue is everything,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">only when it has nothing to hide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Veneers are like shams that lie on sofa beds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to hide our seminal stains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They are not pleasurably mysterious </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like curtains that open to a frank world,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">eager for breathtaking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you for exfoliating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my naiveté:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was mistaken, I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Confused inscrutability with challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even so, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it is a new age now:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“l’amour nouveau”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are patrons of candidness. It</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">flows uninhibitedly, just as natures do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mountains are proudly scaled by those who</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">saw their preeminent peaks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Long before </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">trading in for better shoes.</span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-2244856236915632352015-08-18T20:07:00.001+05:302015-08-21T13:45:13.374+05:30In Passing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you will not tarry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me tell you in passing:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A calloused hand is harder to hold</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But far more worthy. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-81072367384329264052015-08-05T19:13:00.000+05:302015-08-21T13:45:06.425+05:30Toska<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking your heart to a cool lover</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are vulnerable, and more than naked </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More so</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Juxtaposed by their armored habits</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unto which acid could be spilled, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inconsequentially. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are hardy too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or not anymore?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, usually, some spilled orange juice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Would not hurt you--</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But today, on raw, gleaming skin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It sears.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you afraid to pine?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you understand the beauty of</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Feelings, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">which have a way of making</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the world brighter </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Uncovering all its hidden philosophy:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even<i> a juice bottle</i> will tell you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">separation is normal. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Juice.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A bottle of dead fruit-- <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">a bottle</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">--</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Taught me</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To think to myself,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I am crying:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">just to shake it well; </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we will drink</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in a quick moment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe, if I draw the salt in my body up to</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My eyes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It will mix things up inside."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The drink is much sweeter,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For just a moment </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of shaking it up. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An aside:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Is that why </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">they say </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we must</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Drink </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the moment?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Living in the moment</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just means </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remembering that tears </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make you sweeter. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, I just lived a moment </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cast aside. With you.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pining makes me reflective</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In all these pretty ways</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are perfect </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not for loving me,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For<i> my</i> love.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wisest lovers do not say </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The greatest love is one that </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lights the sky up," </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They say it makes </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A breakfast beverage richer than </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Red hook's treasure;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we all know that it's</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hard to be unhappy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a rich world.</span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-5043658708724405722015-04-28T09:37:00.001+05:302015-04-30T00:57:16.624+05:30Love in the Time of Climate-Changing Psychobiology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">You're frigid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I am a desert rose.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal;">Play, repeat:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I'll listen to the songs, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Cognitively dissuade reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">My ears won't hear </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Clashing sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Reasons, bitter almonds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Cyanide in the brain;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Atrophied sea-horses;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">We are murdered incrementally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">By stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Stress, the little pressures as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">We take on more and more,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">And share less,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Yes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Only winter smiles upon those</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Who are cold.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">And now, it is spring.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I must not wait on a decision already made</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Love is a drug; every time we touch </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Oxytocin, vasopressin; and more. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">There is violence in deliberate asynchrony.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">We share evenings of hope</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Until they are evenings of injury.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Aren't we healers? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Let us not breed despair. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I will say that there is something </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">oddly self-aware</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">In studying operant conditioning,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Whilst being operantly conditioned</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">By your hot-then-cold stares,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Agile fingers; meticulously meted out words.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Indecisive affection. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">This is chemical, as chemical as </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Every grain of sand and flake of </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">tightly squeezed ice.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Desert rose, frigid oak,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Neither is a stranger to emotions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I forget that even as</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">The desert sun scorches,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">The desert night has frozen </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Many a thirsty soul.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">And so a strange attraction lies </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Yes, it lays within me</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">The dishonest draw.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">It's an easy delusion:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Our icy words aren't so cold when we</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Share our blankets, sweaters, scarves.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">I'll calm myself</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">For this is a forgiving world: </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">with truthful lies, and good thieves;</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">And endless seas, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">Which give rise </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">to not just </span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">the desert rose,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-weight: normal;">but also the frosty ice. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-90064743739353144632015-04-20T23:42:00.003+05:302015-08-21T14:07:05.096+05:30Heart of a Woman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have I yet,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The heart of a woman?<br />
Quietly-tugging-question:<br />
Lurches, like my stomach as the train<br />
Pulls in, relentlessly<br />
Station after station. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
The heart of a woman,<br />
The calloused heels of a traveller,<br />
The tousled hair of a lover,<br />
The massaged skin of a nymph,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have I yet<br />
A mind of my own?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
The penitent thief:<br />
A good man,<br />
Like most others<br />
Unknown. Invisible helpers<br />
The machine runs, its cogs<br />
are remembered, but not until<br />
They fall out. Have I yet, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The heart of a woman?<br />
With soulful eyes to see<br />
All those repentant robbers? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
Have I yet<br />
The gritty tenacity<br />
To confess completely?<br />
The hands of a pure lover,<br />
Midas touch to<br />
Blessedly transform all sinful lives<br />
The heart of<br />
A woman who is<br />
compelling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
The heart of a woman,<br />
Her bleeding conversion,<br />
distorted self-images:<br />
Have I yet,<br />
The power to create life from nothing?<br />
The capacity for such astounding love?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
Have I yet,<br />
The heart of a woman?<br />
Grown from the glitter studded, acrylic sweat<br />
of a big-sister, a gentle teacher, a smiling scolder:<br />
And what if I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shall I be a specimen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or set precedents?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And how can I count and thank:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the almost lovers,</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All the hands which shared their warmth</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and helped me circulate the truth?</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those rueful souls,<br />
Whose eyes saw me from their corners<br />
and passing glances,<br />
With sufficient distance to see the metabolized me; </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I only saw up-close, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">as a parent who cannot see the new inches of child-bones</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The little girl I was originally, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with a little voice, </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">wondering impatiently:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">if she has yet a heart of a woman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I must also thank,<br />
The lovers of whom I</span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">have meticulous count<br />
For leading my growth and sharing <br />
their food. I don't think<br />
Dinner is a coincidental tradition of courtship.<br />
Some lovers have nurtured me, even if not to see,<br />
but equally importantly, to be<br />
a welcoming home to </span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the heart of a woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />
Yes,<br />
I think I do have one:<br />
a heart of a woman.<br />
A soul that is grown,<br />
no, not fully,<br />
but certainly enough to belong <br />
to a woman. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-73600081984066429282014-12-16T19:23:00.001+05:302014-12-16T19:30:26.130+05:30I, INTERNATIONAL.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“Mama, why do they call coriander cilantro?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“We call it that too, sometimes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“No, it’s Chinese parsley.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“That sounds like medicine!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Only if you get your medicines from the <i>Hakim.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“</i>Those are witch-doctors, but <i>Ayurveda </i>is a real science.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“India never even had witches. <i>Hakims </i>are just herbalists.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Something has to give: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> tourists spend exorbitantly for those homeopathic sugar-pills.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Whatever you say, but none of that stuff lead to fMRIs.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Maybe it did. Even if they don’t publish about it, allopathists still eat it!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“You know that coriander is <i>actually</i> medicinal right? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> There’s empirical evidence.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Yes. Grandmother used to put <i>kothimbeer</i> on swellings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> and they went down right away.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> “Is that coriander? The guy at the bodega calls it </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">dhaniya.”</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“Google </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">says they’re both Hindi; just like English has two words for it.”</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">And it’s not a bodega. He’s a street vendor.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Sabzi-wallahs </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">can be street vendors or not—”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“Mine comes over if I text him; beats the queues at </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Reliance FreshMart.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“—</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Thela </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">is what we call it. Yes, and it’s healthier, straight from the farm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“That’s a cart. A street-cart.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">“Well, it’s not </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">exactly</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> a cart…”</span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-15223387898000408512014-12-11T10:40:00.000+05:302014-12-12T22:01:13.428+05:30Evergreen Creepers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: white; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">New creeps up,</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Behind your ears,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Over you shoulder.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">You will hear yourself-</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In someone else's voice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Smile, with a pained heart:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pending disapproval,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">And the elusive, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">skating-rink which is acceptance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">When new creeps up:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Love yourself like you never could.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Who else is there to love? </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The time of hope and butterflies</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Has flown too far away, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Just like you have.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Horizons are just lines today, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">They are not borders that represent:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Fresh starts from withered heights, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Where life continues, stubbornly on. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Yet, when new creeps up, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">You too should be onwards. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Pointed ahead, heedless of the fact that </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Change never tells you:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">That it's the person standing right behind you, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In every forsaken supermarket line.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Yes, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Old friends are old questions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Or, suddenly in your hand</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Metal is a savior</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">From empty conversation; </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In rooms that are portraits of</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Nostalgia, not truth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">New creeps up</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">and asks difficult questions:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Maybe I'm really a cat person</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Maybe I never was in love </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I don't know if I'll ever be?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">There are no answers. For:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">When it innocuously knocks, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">You will find out:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Lovers are worn concepts,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Carpets, who see too much footfall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Cats are transient multitudes </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Of lives plagued with</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Ifs and buts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">New creeps up: </span><br />
<span style="color: white;">It saunters over, to help you realize</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">That home lies </span><br />
<span style="color: white;">in two or many places.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Your heart's somewhere in between the</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Polar forces</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">of familiarity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The forces that take form in all those</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Invisible waves and teleported voices,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">They seem to repel</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">All the warm bodies with foreign accents, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Who home vitality in their strange cadence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Yes:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Gravity is meaningless, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">when new discreetly arrives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">New creeps up, and</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">There are no easy decisions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Time won't stand still,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Not even for me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: white;">(Not even in a <i>daylight-saving</i> land).</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">But as a cold, shrewd, kindred soul once said:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Regardless of which (equally) fatigued path you tread, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Tomorrow is always a new day. And</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Every uncaged bird will tell you that there is</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Agony in bearing an untold story. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Let me say:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">There is nothing more excruciating </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Than conceiving an unlived life. </span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">So be polite and greet her, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">when new creeps up. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-75816830138291398882014-12-04T23:24:00.000+05:302014-12-04T23:24:43.144+05:30Speechless<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watchful, as a hawk above a golden field, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I see myself in your arms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a dream I cannot shake, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A thought that once could have passed; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But now has settled, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the long stay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Frost-- the world has ended in ice today:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, and your bitter cold is silent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Frozen words are sharp stalactites, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unseen, they still pierce the heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet, I ask: who ever arrived </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let us be on our way, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">gone. </span></div>
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Khushihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16492450987552761399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3920446725243022037.post-30607119707994999242014-11-28T11:35:00.000+05:302014-12-31T22:58:17.806+05:30Dinner with the only Greek Puritan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px;">Dear, dear boy: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come on over. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sit down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have a drink?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">12 years aged, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s not the only icy beast </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this warm, warm room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here, I like silk ties; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You’re wearing a sweater, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your jacket is leather, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The clothes aren’t striped, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But your forehead is furrowed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s my mistake, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Really—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I made you up more than I listened. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A man’s locution in a boy’s voice, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bellbottoms hugged your fecund thighs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How was I to know that I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">would be nervous?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That it would not be me, sitting there? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, no, not I, but the meager</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">shadow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(of lucky, lucky me)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">across the table from you?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tomorrow's headlines won't read:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Anxious artist meets her creation.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s a wonder, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">despite it all, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm almost head-over-heels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or I’m just dizzy from all the walking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With you, I will: loiter and amble--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">greengrass-over-hill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But only </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you bring:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The polka-dotted scarf, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bauble-lipped snicker, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your eyes’ lascivious glimmer-- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, my faith did flicker:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Be true- was this our very own last supper?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you the apostle holding the knife?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And am I rich with unspent coin?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or was it never supper at all:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did we merely consume a most ordinary dinner,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of strange sustenance that only made us thinner?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Were you also cursed with fanciful expectations?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Really— </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who could ever know? </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I, for one, never knew-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To me, you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">were (presently, or perhaps never?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The ironic <i>fertilizer</i> of my fields:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A hardworking mule, my favorite muse--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Always busy, inciting all the words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good! In fair exchange,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I offer you-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reap my succulence, this sweet fruit:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My (catalyzed) literacy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To be sure, it inevitably is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the way of men and Gods:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To come and go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The fairer ones:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We linger and kiss,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Virtuous, just, until--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <i>only</i> dilemma is posed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alas! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are not an easy problem to solve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But really—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who could ever have known?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My good sir, please tell me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Where is Aphrodite when you need her?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We both know:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am no king of Cyprus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But be my Galatea and bear me Paphos?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Secretly, I’ll admit I’m concerned more with the process</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">than creation.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jesus!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me not fawn over a deafeningly silent rock!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I console, love with my soul, I understand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Lesser, I am consoled, loved and understood.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But you’re the oddest oddity, and--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have quite the collection.</span></div>
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