Mr Sun, how are you? --- and other shorts

We should have been the children of our time

But someone stopped the clock

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Every time he speaks,

The words reverberate

Causing indigestion

Among the high and mighty

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It's Eid

The solitary moon has been spotted by the clergy

Won't someone invite her for the lunar festivities?

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The trees have been practising, walking

Now they take tiny steps out of the city

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Night falls, the waiters rinse tumblers, clean tables

Dump the discarded arguments into the garbage bin

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Lord Krishna sat at the conference table in the boardroom

He smiles at how good v/s evil is being arbitrated these days

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Even as she stared into the mirror

Someone opened the door for her

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Headache, headache, please go away

Come again, to my enemy's head

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In my next life, I want to have a leitmotif

From the moment I exit my mother's womb

For starts, I don't want to be born in a hospital

For ends, I don't want to die in one

It makes the rest of living, sickly

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The government has decided to measure

The proliferating hatred in our land

All those in the favour of this idea

Please punch your neighbour's nose

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He always sings Malkauns

After he gargles his mouth

With polluted Ganges water

And a bit of earth, mixed in it

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The elephant fell in love with Juliet

When Juliet chose not to reciprocate

The elephant broke his heart

With a big bang that caused remorse

Among lovers all over the planet

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He wants to celebrate the next Dipawali on Jupiter

With a comet that gleams through the sky

Can he?

Will he?

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He plants a word in the river

It drowns

And becomes an underwater forest

When no one is looking

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Mr Sun, how are you?

I don’t know.

Are you kind of hot? Would that be a fair description?

I don't know.

How were you born?

I don't know.

Do your parents love you? Did they, ever?

I don't know.

How long have you been the sun, Mr Sun?

I don't know."

I've a complaint against you. Why do you make me sweat so much?

I don't know.

Do you know there are people who have sun stroke because of you?

I don't know.

Don't you know how potent your sun-rays are? Still?

I don't know.

What will you do when the sun-rays get weaker?

I don't know?

Will they go weaker?

I don't know.

Mr Sun, don't you think, you've to give me some kind of answer.

I don't know.

Are you afraid of darkness?

Yes.