Doom Scrolling

At dawn of morning,

Alarm gives a warning,

“The day is starting”

Sleep deficient dreams clearing,

After a set of washing,

I start scrolling.

While eating, I scroll;

To make bland

 food ,spicy 

And a spicy one

 as bread.

While in crowds,

I scroll and surf

Through net;

As I ignore them all-set.

In alone I scroll,

To make the mayh...

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Meltdown

The furnace of her loins

glowed red with passion

comcentrated lust

oozing from every pore

of her writhing body ;

THEN

THE

BLOODY

PHONE

RANG !

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So you are lost in dreams so deep whole night

And I long to hear phone's beep whole night

At dawn, I realised, my awakening

Though my destiny remained asleep whole night

I know the remedy, I know the toxin..

What to lose, and what to keep whole night

She might have waited for me to take her back

This is what made me to weep whole night

Sharafat, night is...

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I heard that telephone ringing
at the one remaining box down on the street
down on Division Street

If one of us answers the call
they ain’t coming back
whichever one of us goes to
answer that phone
they ain’t coming back

I woke up restless in the night
opened a window for some air
the whole city poured straight in
over siren wail and drunk's lament
I could hear that ringing sound

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TELEPHONE  SURREALITY

Three colours of grey all flowing into one to make a crazy dance of colour direct from the plastic mould.

Now assembled into such a frightening thing, the instrument of love, life and death.

Multiple square bumps all placed in rows like so many stationary soldiers each with a sharply made out symbol.

A long coiling snakelike wire brings li...

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