Refused waywardly
Like a waylaid wallflower
In a harem of damsels
The opiated image
Its puckered face
Charred and choked
By the termites
Of relapsing moments

The torso hanging loose
In compromising positions
As if by the painter’s noose
Cubic silence in chiaroscuro
Of shadows in gothic blues
Spreading strange aloneness
And leitmotif of splendours
Of the hangman in absentia

All at once
The wallflower
Leapt into the melting sky
To become only one
With the opiated image
And to kiss the dusts
Of the painter’s brush strokes
With a flash of gothic blues
And it spiked the last nail
On his lifeless coffin
To hang the canvas
In agnostic suspense
On the hearse carrying him
To the lone gravedigger
Digging his body for the soul
To bury him in his treasure-trove.

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Here I am
With a lotus
Deep in my heart
There I was
With a dagger
Piercing into my soul

Which one you do want
To save your grace
From the fear
From the vulture's gazing eyes
Which one you want to have
To grace your vain glory
In prophesies of my wisdom

Here I keep
My heartless soul
There I kept my soulless heart
In a bowl of my last wisdom
For you, only fror you

Now you save me
From the fear of disgrace
Of a wayfairing wanderer, alone
In quest of a nirvana
From you, only from you.

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You don’t know what you know
You don't know to love yourself, you know how to hate others
You molest the chastity of faith and belief of others
Like trampling over the grass not knowing the greenoppers
Even when wisdom of truth sticks to the limit of the sky
But your lust for conquering the whole empire
Has crossed all frontiers of one colony after the other
You muzzle the voices of conscience like strangulating
Love with long drawn daggers of hating others

You are the satanic vest
You are the violence on the crest
You are the terminator of the God’s creed
You are the conspirator of your own greed
You are the end unto yourself
You are the false nuggets of your power and pelf
You are not the dream of a futurist
You are the Fascist!
You are the Fuehrer Fascist!

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Kurosawa's IKIRU is a lesser known film but never lacking in his strong commitment to handling human issues with immaculate perception. The story is very simple. A simple as it could be, there is not much gimmick many twists and turns. Even then it is really a treat to watch and worth sitting through to the end.

Tao is is the Unit Head of a public works department. He was left alone by his parents at an early age. His wife too died leaving behind his only son Tong. He himself brought him up with all too parental care sacrificing his personal happiness and joy.

He served his office for 30 years at stretch never his leaving his job undone lived his life among piles of files which seem to be his home and hearth. But the corruption of bureaucracy and red-tapism has tormented him and alienated him from the fellow employees. He only knew how to dispense with his duties. The fellow workers named him 'mummy' and ridiculed him behind his back.

Not only that, to add insult to the injury, his son Tong and his wife too neglected him shamelessly. There only concern was to get money from him. Tao's life was such a tragically woven life that he got liver cancer which he never disclosed to anybody.

Only a fellow cancer patient knew about this. He stopped attending his office which led many of his office workers and neighbours to resorting dirty gossips about him among themselves. He started visiting hotel, restaurants, bars with that cancer patients to get over the predicaments. Oneday, a young seductive girl came to visit him and he started loving her company. But that seductive girl too eschewed him. At their last meeting in a restaurnt, Tao asked her about what boosted her energy made her so frolicsome and jovial.

That girl presented him a limping toy rabbit. Seeing that toy limping, Tao at last realised the true meaning of life which was to live life to one's full content. He regained his lost energy of sorts. He wanted to enjoy life like others but without forsaking his commitment to dedication.

Next day he stared attending his office. Overriding all bureaucratic obstacles he built a public park which was a legitimate and long time demand of the local citizens. In the end, hesuccumbed to cancer singing "Life is short" while swinging on the cradle of the park all alone.

But his mission mission had not gone abegging. All his fellow workers and his son acknowledged his honesty and integrity. The tragedy ends here but with a message. And the 'mummy' came to lfe and he was, as it were, resurrected after his tragic death. It never ended in smoke.

Kurosawas used a lot of flashbacks to portray the contradictions Tao's life with the decadent world which has tormented his soul in no uncertain terms. The soulfulness is poignantly displayed in all those flashbacks. Without those flashbacks the contradictins could not be revealed in such a distinctive denouement. Toshiro Miffun has once more proved his mettle here with his wonderful performance.

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The old woman
Old enough to live by
In years to count her days
Or in the number of her hairs
Graying in hiding
With the ticking of clock
In grazing moments of eternity


A few lapses
Of footsteps away
From the rushing autobahn
She was standing alone
With a big burden
Of a sackful of dead woods
On her weary round head
Bending her well wrinkled body
Closely like a dizzying bow
Almost down to the grounded ruins
Of her sashaying burden
In winds of a stormy petrel

It was as if she had everything
In waiting there
To lose at that high noon
As no Godot was coming by
To stand once by her
To carry home another
Burden of daily foodstocks
For a day’s meandering voyage
In a montage of misgivings
Of that false high noon.

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And the war goes on and on
On all fronts from the north world
To the south verily decimating the peace
And harmonica in mayhem
Of flying ashes and dusts in the dead end of the thick sky
Fires of flashing darkness maiming the sweating bodies
Of the poor souls from the god-forsaken land
And the mothers of the wrinkly thinner children
Swearing and cursing the deflowered wombs of America
With a mask of Nazi face in disguise of a philander in Columbus land
Where the daily sun sets in thundering roars of violence
Upon the safe havens of the south world toiling and moiling
For a mere begging bowl of rice for the holy grail of life
Gilt-edged knives on the sly burn the little fingers
Of the god's small children playing and surfing in the lily pond
When the mangled bodies in flesh and blood of corpses
Littering sparsely all over the divergent places in a whirlwind
From hungry and thirsty Africa to the latifundia of Latin America
From the gory sky to the landless flora and fauna
From the deserts of Iraq to the mountainous jungles of Afghanistan
Staring at those roaring ack-ack guns with deadbeat of hearts
In shock and awe of ever more hunger and beating thumbs of faminine

Who are those people from ancien regime
Who are those people from the dynastic colonial empire
Spewing Agent Orange to defoliate the leaves of the green sky
Manicuring the virgin soil of the wayfaring nature defrosted and denuded
As their own ancestral concubines in their honeycomb of bombs?
Who are these people? Who are those generalissimos in fatigues
Of unfaithful democracy selling at three trillion dollars at stake
In the gravy market of perishing flesh and blood of laissez-faire
Brandishing the ill-gotten laissez-passer to burn and slash in killing spree
And cooking up the puking conspiracy in a tug of war around the world
In streamlining the flood flow of green bucks of filthy lucres
Under the seatbelt of twin-tower crumbling down in daydreaming
In their thousand nights' harem foiling the spectres of sanctity?
Who are their castrated kulaks selling their libido in pentachords
To appease master killer’s machismo of the surge to kill and overkill
In appealing fornication in the killing fields of democracy
From the streaming Euphrates to the sacred land of the sages
In the squalid water of the Ganges days in and days out?

It is from the darkness of the wombs of America
The winds of nuclear winter have set in fireball motion
It is the juggernaut of skullduggery that rolls head-on
Raising the bogey of terrorism to hoodwink the blinding eyes
Of gullible souls to stand by the eunuchs to save their arse-holes
To wage the war of evils conquering the wooden world
Of all of its moral axioms in ruthless capital punishments
In sleight of hands of theological proximo and ultimo to wage war
Like a raging bull trampling the last bastion
Of semblance of goodness of fraternity
Of fulfilling peace, harmony and humanity

Kill America!
Echoed the hibakushas
From the warmth of their heart
During the nuclear winter
Kill the gigolos of America, kill
Cry the children lesser than nothing
Chewing their twittering little fingers
Sucking their mothers' breasts
In the blessed home of their world of womb
Kill America! Kill! Kill!
To save the world
From white fangs of the evil axis
From the bondage of capital
In exponential algebra of bulging belly
Save! Save the world
From the hypocrisy of democracy
Of one world and one dream
Of lies, lust and lustre of littleness
Kill America to warn of its shamness!
Kill, Kill America, the most wanted killer
Of everything beautiful in this world
Kill, kill, kill for the killing!

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