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found this on my flash drive, written a few months back..
Highway friends
Must be a common happening but was seeing it for the first time even though I travel a lot by road. Had to reach pune by 12, caught a cab from vashi at 9:30. Nice jovial newspaper guy driving an indica, mungda playing on the car’s player and maiden on mine. The car jam-packed with newspapers, just space enough for another passenger on the back seat. In fact the car was so heavily loaded that we had to stop a couple of times due to some strange sound coming from the rear, finally realizing that it’s just the mudguard touching the road due to the heavily loaded dickey. We stopped for a tea n smoke after an hour’s drive, somewhere on the expressway. Nice friendly banter going on with the driver and the only other passenger. I was surprisingly cheerful considering I had just quit my job a day before and my lovely ex-girlfriend refused to meet me again. All was fine till then as we proceeded towards pune. Suddenly the driver started swerving the car crazily on the expressway, from left to right and then right to left. I was shit scared, just about managed to remove my headphones and give him a scared ‘why’ look. He just looked back coldly and swerved again. By this time I managed to mutter something, my voice drowning in a truck’s mad honks from behind. The driver finally looked at me, smiled n said “He’s a friend”. ‘Oh..!!’ I managed to mutter as both our car and the truck aligned parallel to each other. As the driver raised his hand to greet his friend the truck driver honked crazily in acknowledgment. After another minute or two of swerving, cutting lanes and honking we were off on our way after both of them ended this friendly encounter with a goodbye honk each. How he managed to recognize the truck is beyond my understanding, cuz the way I see it all trucks look the same. But this guy definitely knew how to find his friends, after all he had been driving on this road night after night since the past 4 years. Finally I cajoled him to take a slightly different path which would drop me near my home. Bid my new friend goodbye, wondering how different our lives were. Saw the time, 15 minutes to midnight both of us on time.
Wasted
Uncool uncared unwanted yet unfazed I don’t need adjectives I’m simply wasted Superfluous liquids flow my blood crazy Dense fumes my mind hazy Chemical reactions inside my brain Ghosts around me driving me insane I’m bloody hell wasted.. Fuck yeah am totally fuckin wasted Take me home if I’m not yet there Take me home if I have one man Take me home if I am still alive Take me home n leave me to die A flicker of light in my face Am I home already is that the police? Hey I have a license why that breathalyzer Leave me alone I’m fuckin wasted
Puneeeeet you crazy retard you did it again Mommy I didn’t do it, no I was in my room.. please don’t hit me any more I can’t take the pain.. mommmmmy..
n I open my eyes yet again am I home yet, oh please I need a drink Oh I feel like a loser, hard not being one Another swig, am I on the brink? Hell no, I am still wasted The sky’s still purple the road still pink
No pink so very much sucks, can’t you get yourself something better.. I mean look at you.. Ok sweetie why don’t you get yourself somebody better Hey babie wait..
[deep inhaling noise.. coughs]
Hey brothers you all I ever got You friends is all I ever earned Thick n thin you always been there Wind or snow I got a place to stay But then you can’t blow me Oh fuck you barely know me There’s more to me Than you could find out all these years Hell I got a heart you’v ears?
Sonofabitch whaddya think you are [sound of a fight] Thud.
Destiny sucks if I ever had one Fate’s getting fatal but that’s for all Am waaaaaasted am wastedddddd yeah.. Uncool uncared unwanted yet unfazed I don’t need adjectives I’m simply wasted
Puneet you stupid moron ‘wasted’ is an adjective.. Am sorry mommy :(
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