Shail’s News in Verse, a blend of news and poetry, explores death tourism, voting from space, and a celebrity’s legal troubles, exclusively for Different Truths.
This is a Heading Example
Guess karma just got tossed out of the window
‘cos the Sarco pod is here to transform
you into a deserter for life at the press
of a button, breathing in nitrogen
for a price in a trice
living (dying) in an illusion that death
was graceful and quick;
what a hacker’s trick
that’s Dr Nitschke for you;
he kills because he can’t heal.
That’s the pitiable deal.
Check out the modern gas chamber
where an American holds the world record
to be the first one to turn to cinder.
Spacing travel with casting votes
250 miles above the planet,
hovering around earthly reality.
So close and yet so very far.
The irony of things,
the miracle of technology in space,
astronaut Sunita Williams casts vote
while in orbital embrace,
another feather in the cap of NASA, which
can send her up there but not bring her back
soon enough. Whoever wins in the election
has a cosmic debt to repay
to voting cosmonauts in space.
Ek Tha Blackbuck
Revered by the Bishnoi clan in Rajasthan
the blackbucks that the actor killed
for hunting flavour were not mere animals.
Revered to every cell, sadly the actors refuse
to dwell on Nature’s protective aura
which despises humans’ hunting horror.
Just when you thought that the actor
had done, seen it all,
had loved, cheated, splashed his bulges
waist above, he is surprised with the ghosts
of the blackbucks that he poached;
it is a line that should not have been
encroached. Now, he is threatened
dime a dozen; guess he might turn it
into a movie someday, Ek Tha Blacbuck,
Blackbuck Bhaijaan or, Tum Mere Ho Kaun!
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Reference:
The best titles for Salman’s movie could be
DHAMKI.
MAINE NAHI MAARA.
EK GOLI MERE NAAM.
IT WAS GHOST OF BLACK BUCK THEN.
NOW IT IS THE NAME AND FRANE OF LAWRENCE BISHNOI..
Thank you Mr. Naidu for sharing your views. Interesting.