Knotworthy

A few friends and I will be going to the launch of Arundhati Roy's latest non-fic offering: Listening To Grasshoppers - Field Notes on Democracy tomorrow.

Till then, I have something for you to brood on.

Democracy is India's (official) political credo. Is this system a mistake?

.. and things that are not overrated

1. Colon spacing and indentation
2. Turmeric
3. Honesty
4. Satyajit Ray
5. Space and air (Reference: 7-11 am and 5-8 pm, any Bombay railway station)
6. Feminism
7. Sunshine
8. Intuition
9. Perfectionism
10. Desires
11. Hearing clearly
12. Freedom
13. The night sky
14. Shoelaces
15. Pink Floyd
16. Eye-to-eye contact
17. Love
18. Freshly shampooed hair and waxing
19. Selfishness
20. Modernism
21. Laughter
22. Optimism
23. Time
24. Ignorance
25. Odd numbers

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On the promise of eternity

There are no roads left to walk on,
no day left unwoken to.
Caged in the fire of a slow, dying light.

Fixed between a shuttling echo,
the crackling embers of your life.
A blunt knife piercing the passing days.

You are caught as the light in your photo,
fixed, with gazes impaled upon.
Not a sharpness, a streak in sight.

No reckless desire, no drive, no power,
molten with hurt and sigh and pain.
Lost in need, glittering in the dark.

Choked in stillness, in quiet refrain,
"remember when you were young".
Mystery marksman, never to die.