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After Consuming A Barrel Of Wine
by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet → (All Poetry by Nikhil Parekh - Indian Poet)
Monday, March 14, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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 He babbled incoherently at innocuous pedestrians traversing through the streets, 

Clenched his fist high in the air; barking a malicious volley of rustic expletives, 
Spat loads of colored saliva on the ground; blending superbly with the loosely sprawled mud, 
Danced languidly listening to the slightest of music; eventually collapsing in a bedraggled heap on the ground, 
Swayed frivolously at fair skin; only to be slapped with fervor on his bearded cheek, 
Occasionally stumbled badly on sharp pieces of stone; hurtling at fast speeds to get a taste of disdainful soil, 
Scratched his hair in wild rhapsody; with a ravishing hunger in his blood shot eyes, 
Took deep breaths every once a while; as if getting strangulated by bouts of suffocation, 
Wailed passionately; vociferously proclaiming his unrelenting misery and tyrannical pain, 
Was thoroughly oblivious to his boisterous surrounding; lost in realms of sedative fantasy, 
Had lost all appetite for cooked food; relinquished to chew and eat, 
Looked waywardly towards the sky; trying to decipher his blurred destiny, 
Rebuked his children severely at home; at their most innocuous of provocation, 
Kicked acerbically intricate furniture in vicinity; dismantling the sanctity of 
household to threadbare junk, 
 
Illegibly scribbled few lines of script; making a ridiculous mockery of calligraphy, 
Slapped his wife with tenacity on her ear; for disobeying his dictatorial rules, 
Audaciously revealed startling facts about his life; which he had embedded 
deep within his heart, 
Was saved by the scruff of his neck on umpteenth an occasion; from high powered cars; and monstrous traffic, 
He had completely lost the dignity to speak; the ability to stand firm on his knees; distinguish the light illuminating air from darkness, 
In the end; he collapsed in a disheveled heap on the ground; awaiting the first rays of brilliant dawn to terminate his sleep; wash all traces of the barrel of red wine; he had obsessively consumed the previous night

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