Re: [ZESTPoets] Memory

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:58:32 -0800

hi ron:
 
not only this brought a smile it also reminded me of an old poem on a walk with my father...
 
here is the link:
 
 
 
 
 
 
walk in the afternoon
my father
i love him
love him so...

unique he is
like his progeny
no wonder then...

we see and see not
eye to eye on all
issues and subjects

all he and i stand for
unwittingly we accept
and grant each other
the space to grumble

(who said anythin' about open hearts?)

such crystal is our thinking
that out on our daily walks
should we ever accost
a rifle loaded
reflexively we'd
find ourselves
at its opposing ends
but the trigger, we shan't
pull--for we love to barb
our way out of forays

often we discuss childhood
not mine or my siblings
but of his grand children
loves them, covered for them
like he did not for us
for me! as i vainly
postulate and reassure

and when other topics
doze off in exhaustion
we discuss news and books
oh well, the Book of books
and his favourite _expression_
accusing me of writing
chapter thirty one
or aspiring to...

at that i feel
like dropping out......
macluhanesque truism
emblazoned all over
the spare tire bra
of my college Vespa,
Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out

but drop out, how can i
for cliches aside
i love you so! despite...


On 11/14/05, ronnie banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi temp
here's another to hopefully make u smile:-
 
MEMORY

 

Once I compared my father,

after his retirement,

with the manual Remington

typewriter in

our office, which now lies unused,

in one corner.

Its keys, with their worn out alphabets

could, surely, only cobble together

text of a forgotten lexicon.

 

Our office, for your information,

has PCs now,

with 40 gigabytes of memory

and a RAM of 256 MB

multimedia keyboard, the works;

and I am about to get my laptop soon.

 

The comparison in a way was

wrong though.

The realisation dawned when

I saw him rewriting and editing

his old crumpled diary, rifling through

his old yellowing letters

dwelling on his past,

summoning an entire history

in that frown of his;

his favourite daughter now

"married off",

looking very alone

in one corner of his study - a

manual typewriter

with a

million gigabytes of memories.

 

Ron (written years back)

 

 



temporal t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ron:
 
brought a morning smile
 
t

 
On 11/8/05, ronnie banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
An Elegy to myself
 
A speeding disfigured bus
with iridescent vomit festering
on its rusty flanks,
swerved, veered and
crushed me, abruptly
interrupting my routine.
 
The rogue got me midway
between many incompletes
and spattered the road
with my tentative improbabilities,
though at the end
it was a good excuse to skip office.
 
and soon after my death
my mother was incensed
at me
when she found in my
secret closet (i was dead so
there was none to object)
carelessly written verse
hidden between pages of
hard porn mags.
 
but there i was
limp limbs lacerated
littered all over
the Chirag Delhi fly-over
open to Public gaze
like a badly written poem
published for once.
 
Ron (11-02-1997)
 
hidden between

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