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Invitation Cancelled
I did not
cancel it
Am no body
to do so
It cancelled
itself out
Placed
itself right on the top
Unlike the
fine prints of ‘Conditions Apply’
Which remain
hidden somewhere underneath
The
brochures of insurance companies--
Rather like
the hawkers of fish market
It cried
hoarsely and in unison
“Invitation Cancelled’, ‘Invitation
Cancelled’
After all what
do you expect
In this morbid
valley of broken vows
When all
come in to bemoan
Uninvited,
unsolicited, unproposed
Erasing the
distinctions
Between you
and me
Between twilight
and wee-hours
Between death
and life
Between
reality and illusion
Between
images real and those in the mirror
Between hosts
and guests
Kumar Vikram
