Friday, June 16

Shot

when your feet won't stand still and your fingers insist
on racing
and your heart beats in tune to the rollercoaster
in your head

eat a keylime pie
or a sausage on rye
tell a stinging lie
swat a filthy fly

and grin
win
enjoy the din

of a drunken caviar soaked night
or a totally tacky pointless fight

and ask yourself if you even remember

a time

when your insides burned
and your fervent mind churned

for something real

and if only you'd known then
it would never be again

do you think
you might have

savoured the run
still chased the sun
held on to the one

put away the gun?

10 comments:

Radhika said...

Deep...discrete. Had to read it thrice though!

shikha said...

Inky..Must say that your canvas is really really huge:)

... said...

Puts you on edge, this one. Fidgety fecundity at its best.

Inkblot said...

rads: yeah, I did too before I figured out how to say it :)

shikha: i like a canvas without borders. thanks for reading

doc: bang on- and thanks.

Aradhita said...

some of the lines actually did sting me!

And you won't believe I spent yesterday evening seething and listening to 'Hey Man, nice shot' by filter... but then again you might just surprise me by believing..

aria said...

"tell a stinging lie
swat a filthy fly"

Really delightful. :)
savvy writer.. you are ..

aparna said...

This is a repetition. How do you play with them so?

Can the game be taught? Is there a coach somewhere? Does one need to practice everyday, under the lamp... scribble one page each day.

Does one get lots of homework too?

Too many questions?

Inkblot said...

jon cox:thank you. 'thrilling' sounds good to me.

aradhita: if your capable of doing anything, I'm capable of believing anything- attagirl! (no sting intended)

aria:savvy? lol...and thanks

aparna:life moves in circles wouldn't you agree?
Your head is your only coach but unlike a game its the lack of discipline which probably inspires so perhaps then its not really a game?
homework might work out of the home, but who knows?

too many questions? Always welcome.

sd said...

Nice. very nice... Me thinks most ppl would still have "chased the sun"!

Prat said...

You're alive...in ways more than one.