Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Keeping It Simple & Stupid

I think I am getting towards mastering the art, having been helped in no small measure by the inborn talent.
Sometimes I savor these moments of intellectual laziness. I let the words flow in, into my eardrums, or eyes’, feel them sailing in, fighting desperately for a little crack to open inside me. They want to be let in...Well some of them, others don't bother. Sometimes I decide to let a visitor in. I like the sweet sensation of beads of sweat on my forehead as I try to pry open the sensible self ever so delicately. The effort is designed to fail.
I like glow of stupefaction and wonder, the nod of understanding- the revelation. Yes they must act now... something needs to be done . Thus I need to sit and decide for an action plan to understand it. I need to brood in peace with this slight pressure of pointless purpose.
I absolutely love the valor of Kamikaze . Yes it's glorious to fail.
I see the world through eyes or a serpent. lithe and lively and murderously colorful creatures with all the color or general blindness..I see the fuzzy, shapeless world that extends up to five feet,little world bubble with cold death outside. Inside, it's a long wait. Occasionally I venture out so far as four and a half feet, mostly I keep my memories and snapshots at a handy distance, not too far away. (Someone might argue that a snake doesn't have hands..or is it that for you and me the eyes and the fangs define the snake so much so that we never bothered to see?.. the archeologists ( read grave-diggers- the old wise men) say the serpent did have hands once upon a time..in this little five feet world the hands kept getting sorrier and angrier and smaller till the day when eyes could not see them and then they dropped away from the world..but that's another story) ( The eyes became the favored slave of the fangs, they learnt to spot moving prey and incoming predator, waiting at the doorsteps as a slave should be at other times, until they to realized they were too small to be the only one.. and then they felt sorry and teary and foggy, but they stood by.Thus we have the serpent with fangs, and then eyes and rest of the body...but that's another story)
The trick is to keep it simple and stupid... Thusi finish with a stupid god -knows- for -what- reason grin
Exercises for practice
Q who won in the end?
A the Fangs
B the eyes
C- the hands
D the question is out of syllabus as the relevant text is within parentheses
E it's a farce so no one wins,
Hint- its either A or B or C or D or E,
*Answer only is applicable

3 comments:

  1. do i read a lot of innenuendoes....what with the snake imagery....proof read bhai....good work...worth a KISS ponder :-)

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  2. Well-written...but there's a whiff of green, gray,artistic cunning, not-so-likeable in it... should be called "Keeping It Simple aand Sinister" :)

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