Shipra hostel, room 336

The long drawn pale taste of afternoon
dissolves in paper cups of joy
the beauty of rain about to emerge
from the crackling womb of clouds

to greet the hysterical corridors.

Bang bang they go delirious

hush hush, she cajoles the april sky

beer chant

sparkling face, sad face
Significant face, sloppy face
simplistic face, sober face
sly face, sluggish face
shrunken face, smug face
same face
sickeningly strange face

seeking face, slimy face
stoic face, semantically sweet face,
seedy face, slithered face
sexy face, secretive face
seamless face,
strangely special face

stuffed face, scattered face
snoring face, scary face,
sedated face, smashing face,
subliminal face, sustainable face,
subversive face
solely sophisticated face

One Million of them,
pass by
Like clouds on an
overcast sky
While i look out,
without staring
for the one which smiles back
without pretending.