Saturday, March 04, 2006

Sit

Sit, drink your coffee here; your work can wait awhile.

You're twenty-six, and still have some life ahead.
No need for wit; just talk vacuities, and I'll
Reciprocate in kind, or laugh at you instead.

The world is too opaque, distressing and profound.
This twenty minutes' rendezvous will make my day:
To sit here in the sun, with grackles all around,
Staring with beady eyes, and you two feet away.

- Vikram Seth
Seth is brilliant. His control over language - its simplicity and his skill in creating an atmosphere, is unmatched. Maybe except by Piet Hien.

1 Comments:

At 5:22 AM, Blogger N said...

thanks for the Grooks!! I would have surely missed the beauty if you hadn't put up the link and that would have been sad..

 

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