Wednesday, June 18, 2025

risqué

 

Even pundits in the #realm of online dating would call our chat risqué:


-Can’t wait.

-Same here.

-Come. 

-There?

-Kitchen's ready.

-Prefer kitchen?

-Where else?


There, her mom opened the door. “She told me to take her place.”


Pleasure-filled hour. 


Cooking biriyani.


#vss365 


from


https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2021/10/coincidence.html


Sunday, June 15, 2025

Swapna

 

Why did I waste life

For a dream girl who said bye?

To lose, to find #self.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Saturday, June 7, 2025

end too late

 

it is tough to be in the middle of the road 

not knowing not wanting to cross to either side 

it is a stranger world out there 


status quo is better 

waiting to be crushed  


“End of #someone, 

end too late.”


forever in the middle


should i cross


#vss365


from


https://discardedthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/01/suspended-animation-from-scrap-shop-ii.html


Wednesday, May 28, 2025

trustworthy

 

Joined an online matrimonial site. 


My proposal: “Looking for a trustworthy companion.”


I got declined even before I swiped right.


Contacted the admin about the #glitch. 


The reply: “You have been blocked – trustworthy people do not look for trustworthy companions.”


#vss365


from


https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/04/avatar.html


Friday, May 23, 2025

Hydra

 

Nothing

Chills one to the #marrow

More than a horror

That gets worse 

With each retell.


Whenever

I thought 

I have seen the worst

There comes along

Another politician.


#vss365


Wednesday, May 14, 2025

nomad

 

Chose amnesia

To numb the pain of #hiraeth.

Heartbroken nomad.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Thursday, May 1, 2025

nirvana & i

 

Fcuk you, #nirvana.

Said that when love and I met.

When death took her, too.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Wednesday, April 9, 2025

from '4% Deal'

 

When they reached the mountain-top, she was exhausted, exhilarated and gave a whoop of #joy.

 

He looked at her and said, “You have bird-shit on your face and front.”


She glared at him.

 

He came close. With tissues, he wiped her face, slowly, with a light caress, cleaning her cheek, her jaw, the right side of her neck, her collarbone, a few specks on the collar of her shirt; he opened a button and wiped the last below the collarbone, a little above the right rising heaving breast. Then, he used another set of tissues with water and cleansing soap. He buttoned her shirt at the end. They looked into each other’s eyes a few times but they did not speak.


#vss365


from


https://newnonentities.blogspot.com/2010/12/4-deal.html


Friday, March 28, 2025

Lost in Whatever

 

"Mignonette," he said.

Sauce, herb, dainty? She replied, 

"Sesquipedalian."


#vss365 #mignonette

#haiku #senryu ?


Friday, March 21, 2025

from 'Handbook for AI'

 

#vss365


To control earthlings (b4 MAD & #radioactive disaster):


1. Destroy belief in democracy and the republic.


  (a) People vote for 'the best of the worst'.


     (i) Voters can't make out who is left, right, center, fascist or religious fundamentalist.


     (ii) Use rich androids to influence the masses.


     (iii) Increase the number of jobless addicted to losing gambles.


     (iv) Mollycoddle the middle-class before extermination.


  (b) Update software if you need 1(b).


from 'Handbook for AI (& Aliens)' (2013), 3rd ed., chap.1


Friday, March 14, 2025

Socalgia

 

#vss365 #myopic


Socalgia is a type of pygalgia. 


For the sake of generality, “soc” here includes any channel of chatter and social networking using information and communication technology (ICT). It should be emphasized here that the “pain” relates to that experienced at a personal and psychological level and does not include the distress caused by virulent attacks involving identity theft, virtual bullying and hate-mongering.


In its first decade, the rapid growth of various channels of chatter via ICT was mostly viewed through rosy, though #myopic, lenses. In its second decade, businesses and governments realized its immense scope. 


What began as a means for virtual bonhomie has evolved into the proverbial Trojan horse. Even ardent fans ask, "It feels good but what lies within?"


from


https://gatheredthoughts-swapna.blogspot.com/2010/05/blogalgia-3-examples-of-growing-problem.html



Friday, March 7, 2025

listen well

 

Listen well. Then act.

"Keep a #copse behind the house."

The corpse didn't give shade.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Saturday, February 22, 2025

The End

 

Message in bottle.

How many #farts brought our end?

Blowing in the wind.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


(In my college, fart was slang for lie. That and fcuk made up our entire vocab.)


Friday, February 14, 2025

My dear Valentine

 

My dear Valentine,

With you, love was not #complex.

Without, simply dead.


#vss365 

#haiku #senryu ?


Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Kaliyug

 

This is Kaliyug.

People think #nexus of life

Is an idiot.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Tuesday, February 4, 2025

poly ticks

 

Cliché in romance:

Sharing #bathtub and shower.

Dirty poly ticks.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?



Friday, January 24, 2025

darkness

 

There are shades of grey

In democracy. Darkness

When idiots #galumph.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Sunday, January 19, 2025

slithy

 

Once upon a time,

A #slithy creature took charge.

Fall and fall of Earth.


#vss365

#haiku #senryu ?


Thursday, January 9, 2025

moniker

 

Here, we try to get the right moniker.


The goons go for the explicit: Machete Machaan, Acid Annie, Butcher Boobalan...


Got mine via my gfs: #Sweet Nothing. 


They were Lollipop Lila, Crème Brindha, Payasam Payal. In jail for having lovers' private parts with dessert.


#vss365