Handheld Aesthetics

Writing a poem for you, is like,

Putting the camera at a weird angle.

Something, that does not respect the

Traditional mise en scène but

Something that is perhaps handheld.

Documentary style -

A type of guerrilla filmmaking.

In the midst of the crowd -

Lies the image of your life

Part-fiction-part-real.

You zoom in with a low buget camera,

Guiding the viewer to recognize - the 

Mundane sublimity of being nothing -

But a human being. 

Spots of Time

A meagre 20-rupee note 

shivering on the dashboard

displays its lightness.

Covering around 35 Kilometers

With just one passenger in the car

he stops randomly by the roadside.

Coarses his throat calling passengers.

With mountains coming close,

as suburbs slide by,

the car zigzagging on the road

seems unnecessary.

As we reach the main stop

reluctantly he gives the note to another man

While I look at my watch.