I con

 

What is an icon? Is it like the National Geographic which is said to be iconic? Or, is it like the Wellington Gymkhana Club? The former is closing down, the latter was coerced into closing, albeit for a few days. 

Per Webster, icon is: 'a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere'. 

How can admiration close down?

Some say the word icon is the amalgamation of the subject and predicate of a very short sentence: 'I' + 'con'.

What do you say?

My, my, it's July

 

Some sigh,

It's already July;

Some say, My, My!

It's July!

Artificial intelligence pack

The online seller

Sent a text:

Arriving on doomsday,

Your free 

Artificial intelligence pack

to combat doomsday.

Rate your experience,

And give your feedback

On the AI pack

To the Maker.

And, call the Maker

On doomsday

For any support.

All the anger of the world

 

The day

All the anger of the world

Dissipates into the sea,

And, the sea rises

And touches the sky,

All souls

Will walk the viscous sea,

In search of life,

In search of love.

We are like this only

 

We are like this only:

We are 6/6 in hindsight,

We use microscope for foresight,

We are generous

When we are not paying,

We ask, kitna deti hai?

Of the car we aren't buying.

We are like this only.

*kitna deti hai: What is its fuel consumption

Love to hate

 

I know that hate-to-love

Is a kind of hate;

Is love-to-hate

A kind of love?

And feel the pain again

 

Parting has become a bit of a habit now.

That same intense pain and sorrow

When the first movers crossed over,

Is no longer there.

Two mates crossed over

To the other side yesterday.

The hurt has deadened a bit.

Some of our mates

Must be still be choking with intense grief.

Mine must be an utterly bad habit.

Should I get out of this bad habit?

And feel the pain again?

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Only on the 9th June, the Indian Army's 64 Regular commissioning day, I sent a message to my coursemates thus:

Happy commissioning day, pongos*. 

May you get decommissioned only at aakhri padrao.**

*pongos: Armymen, so-called in the Tri Services

**aakhri padao: The last stop, metaphorically, the cremation or burial spot.