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Someday I feel I will write an essay. Words should have the luxury of coming in twins, build a locality of its own. Poetry for them is a lonely space. Each preciously used to carry out a task ( we call meanings) and until they are done, pretend as if they are someone else. Metaphor, some call it. I wonder if I will ever be able to shred the too many 'I's I use in an I-tem. If ever I can live upto to write what is non personal. Something that talks about trees, seas, mountains, hills, Sun and the moon and for a moment reserves the blunt knife for some blunt-er souls ( like me ofcourse, no offense to you). Reality has come into halves all my life. I have dreamt the other. Like the conventional glass case, I have measured the half empty moments of life and treasured the half fulls. For a strange optimist I have been, the reason for pessimism has also been the same. I know people who invent ways to sadden themselves. There is a strange negative energy to it, a sense of security in ...

Pulp Fiction

I want you to know tonight if I die in my sleep, do not forget to switch the AC off tomorrow. Bread, butter, jam will be on the table and oh yes, keys in the hall. I want you to know tomorrow if I do not wake up, Remember what is left of us is under the bed; Photos, letters - memories and a whole lot. Do not just leave me like any other day. Coming back will be a discomfort. I want you to know tonight if you be more indifferent, I would not mind. I am used to your late night whispers, pretensions conveniently termed 'office calls'. You were never a good liar. But, tomorrow I may just wake up as if I have changed my mind And burn this letter. Its the hundredth time. What you won't know is, Like that piece of paper, I have only dreamt of being read oneday. There has never been a pulp fiction. Perhaps there never will be. SoUmY@