Peeling an orange,
      an extended image,
           a few old poems,
               a box of metaphors, a cache
                       of adjectives and adverbs,
        a verb: reading
              morning newspaper.

         A couple takes on three robbers,
                movie star jailed for killing Black Bucks,
                killer drivers absconding,
                    two pages of alabaster skin
                           advertising skin creams,
                                a cache of adjectives
                                    on Bush, Blair, Saddam and Osama,
          Sonia playing her trump cards,
                                       Manmohan the puppet,
          Kalam, the great president,
                          Dr Putin? He cheated, say scholars,
          Hizb chief Salahuddin
                              surfaces in public in Pak.
                     A morning newspaper,
                          a half peeled orange,
                              an extended image,
                                   a box of metaphors.

Beware! You could be googled,
search engines judge you.

         Ambani resigned from Rajya Sabha,
              walked fluorescent underground arcades,
                   riding crocodile elevator,
                         spoke to media in bubble words,
                                  flowery bubbling words,
                                        about accountable accounts.
                   A morning newspaper,
                              a cache of adjectives and adverbs
                                         smoked, sprayed and perspired.

       Bollywood has a blast at the games,
              Celluloid beauties have MCG in Thrall.
                  British rising star, who is rising
                       for ten years, Henman, dumps
                  Hewitt, Clijsters falls to Craybas.
Last two pages cover advertisements,
            begging, fricken advertisements,
                    smelly, enameled, glossy advertisements.
            No news on genocide in Africa,
                     no column on jail tortures in Iraq.
   An extra supplement, opportunities,
        inform MNC job openings,
             consultants faking resumes,
                  window dress dreams.
        A morning newspaper,
            an extended image,
                 a few stitched poems,
                   a pair of metaphors,
                       a pack of adjectives and adverbs,
                             a lighter.