Dye Another Day

Reflection in the mirror,
Shows a strand of silver,
Poking through the black,
Throwing age out of wack.
Is it stress or the vile air,
Causing a premature scare?
Or is six-and-twenty
The new old-and-benty?
With joints that creak,
And premonitions bleak,
Of teeth unable to crush
Nought but Cerelac’s mush.
Watery eyes that I curse
Register a fuzzy Ms. Universe,
Who’s forgotten in a snap,
Mistaken for an underfed [...]

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Tome Reader

My old roomie was renowned in Pilani for being an all-environment reader. He’d read while walking to classes and back, during meals in the mess, and even while…ahem…using the facilities (ed: close encounters of the first kind, not the second, mind you!). In Urbana, something drastic might have happened because I saw little evidence of [...]

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Tan Tan-a Tan

On those days warm,
Soaked by solar power,
They descend as swarm,
Partake of golden shower.
Lounging by pool,
Bodies bared to sky,
Ray-Ban’d to look cool,
Skin set to fry.
They’re pale to begin,
But ain’t satisfied,
Lack of melanin,
In occidental hide.
Brown they desire,
My colour au naturale,
Will pass through fire,
To become femme fatale.
I glance and sneer,
At supine ones,
Brimming with cheer,
For all Injuns.
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Naked Fun: License to Swill

Listen to me, my dearies. I officially live in a disreputable apartment complex, which will work wonders for my sagging street cred. ‘Twas exactly a week ago that my sleep was disrupted at 2:30 am by the shouts and screeches of co-educational frolic at the communal pool. Quite evidently, the revellers were a tad tipsy [...]

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Agnus Dei

Another gem for metal geeks from the stable of the +91 Renegades. Yes, we are THAT jobless.
Blacken the Cursed Sun,
Walk with Me in Hell,
Bastard Son,
To Bid You Farewell.
The Four Horsemen,
For The Revolution,
Meadows of Heaven,
Ready for Salvation.
Here Is Pure Hatred,
Triple Corpse Hammerblow,
Better Off Dead,
Guerilla Radio.
Lovesick for Mina,
The One Brooding Warning,
Wings of the Hydra,
Thank God for the [...]

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Lousy

A friend will have her very first wedding ceremony in September and asked me for my opinion on certain lou-related poems by Tagore and Tolkein. Surprised at the latter? He did write the Lord of the Rings after all. I took it as a challenge to pen one of my own and this what I [...]

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