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27th September 2008, 02:45 PM
Sanity
- A.Thiagarajan
three days
holidays
together-
with suffixing
and prefixing
easily a week-
with no advance booking
no resorts nor hotels
sitting near my kitchen window
tea pot on the stove
I look out
notice the empty gates
no school buses honking
no uniformed butterflies
no attending restless mothers
the teapot calls..
good enough
same on all days
taste better when you
don't gulp..
and I wonder
why I wanted more time
on other days-
don't know how to
handle it now..
oh!
everything is
"handling" now
or management?
there are courses and gurus
how to's from Harvard and Kellog
step by step
time management!
you have not learnt
how
not to use time
not to
s
p
e
n
d
t
i
m
e …
but let it
be
like the worm
in earth
or simply
the creeper
on your balcony
….
I look at the paper
and wanted to spend time
- a day can go-
circling in red
each English error
and wonder if it is
of any use
other than proving
to be a snob
&
who cares as long as
you convey
language is
for communication,
product of the colonial shi-t….
No maid today,
No post nor courier
No bank
No traffic jams nor the blaring horns
a smoke?
though there are few at home
I walk up
to the old man at the
3by3 hole
and seeing me
as an intruder
though with a smile
himself on a beedi-
Today I am unannoyed-
Have you ever noticed
A bull in the middle of the road
Oblivious to the whole world
And your bloody time and traffic?
I sit and imagine
a world without
sudokus, crosswords,
beauty parades,
strikes and slogans
swamijis and yogas
gyms and laughter clubs
sanity
when you
realise
it is
not
insanity…
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- A.Thiagarajan
three days
holidays
together-
with suffixing
and prefixing
easily a week-
with no advance booking
no resorts nor hotels
sitting near my kitchen window
tea pot on the stove
I look out
notice the empty gates
no school buses honking
no uniformed butterflies
no attending restless mothers
the teapot calls..
good enough
same on all days
taste better when you
don't gulp..
and I wonder
why I wanted more time
on other days-
don't know how to
handle it now..
oh!
everything is
"handling" now
or management?
there are courses and gurus
how to's from Harvard and Kellog
step by step
time management!
you have not learnt
how
not to use time
not to
s
p
e
n
d
t
i
m
e …
but let it
be
like the worm
in earth
or simply
the creeper
on your balcony
….
I look at the paper
and wanted to spend time
- a day can go-
circling in red
each English error
and wonder if it is
of any use
other than proving
to be a snob
&
who cares as long as
you convey
language is
for communication,
product of the colonial shi-t….
No maid today,
No post nor courier
No bank
No traffic jams nor the blaring horns
a smoke?
though there are few at home
I walk up
to the old man at the
3by3 hole
and seeing me
as an intruder
though with a smile
himself on a beedi-
Today I am unannoyed-
Have you ever noticed
A bull in the middle of the road
Oblivious to the whole world
And your bloody time and traffic?
I sit and imagine
a world without
sudokus, crosswords,
beauty parades,
strikes and slogans
swamijis and yogas
gyms and laughter clubs
sanity
when you
realise
it is
not
insanity…
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