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When honeycomb started dripping, he stopped eating and climbed a sand dune for the last journey.Pall-bearers were ready for blunt futurism ceding to a deliberate defeat. Hunger was his turbulent empire, resting his hands on the shoulders of rocked time for the purification of greed and spurting desires. His only mechanical aid was his pen. Into the half century of geckoes getting rid of tails when a monkey was found in the stomach of a croc.Toons themselves spread out mocking the winter of hexagonal windows. Grey birds started melting on the burnt-out grasses. Lions walked on identical twins of nudes. A wet kiss of death ensured the beautiful ceasation. Yellow roses opened the frigid body. SATISH VERMA * A soulful ritual of Jainism when a person seeks death voluntarily and stops eating and drinking.

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Date: 7/19/2009 9:03:00 PM
I see this sometimes...when a couple have been married oh, say, 50+ yrs. and one passes, the other goes within months or weeks, understandable....nice poem, Satish! I'm a fan!!!.... jim
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