Monday, July 9, 2007

Creative writing

Shil here, coming straight at your dil, yaar! I’ve written a poem for y’all.


Simple pleasures

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own house?

Have you ever picked up Playboy just to browse?!

Have you felt a deep alienation that creates mental turbulence like a passing luxury liner?

On your first visit to America were you received at the airport by a desi and taken to a diner?

Has anyone ever shouted “Osama” at you from a passing car?

Have you ever been ignored by beautiful white women in a bar?

Then I know you have never gotten anything you want

But have you ever ordered Pepsi in a fine restaurant?

Have you ever eaten curd rice with your hands?

And have you ever topped your class in finance?

Have you ever debugged a program in Fortran?

Or ever solved a Y2K problem for a white man?

Have you ever shopped online to find the cheapest deal?

And have you ever bought condoms just to see how they feel?

It’s the simple pleasures, yaar.

3 comments:

casio said...

too good poem, boss, too good!! u are thora sa hat ke, friend.
btw, you are having problems with etiquette in the fine restaurant?
i understand, friend, I understand.
i will send you my copy of "Guide to Good Manners" by Mrs Southern Belle.

Shil said...

Yaar, what's the funda with white wine?! Was meeting a client in Marriott and I ordered white wine and bugger waiter gave me this look, as if i'm like the bottom of the food chain. WTF?

casio said...

by and large the ladies only are drinking white wine, that is why.
waiter must think you are chakka or what! lol.
for men, it is better to order colored alcohol- viz, scotch, red wine.