nd 2013 at 9.25pm
lying on the bed at Villa 8
in Villa Serbelloni
in Bellagio
Como, Italy
It is blue out
Blue like hazy blue
not misty blue
because not cold
actually warm and crows cawing
just now makes me think of chennai
kaka podi vechane kanu podi vechane
kuda porandavaal laan nullah irikinoon
why chennai?
actually bombay right
because that’s the last memory
of black crows
eating off green banana leaves
lined with
sweet rice, salty rice, tangy yoghurt rice
7 balls per type of rice times 3 = 21 balls
why 21?
because mathematics is spiritual
magic numbers mystical.
here’s also how i tell time in different time zones
i say for example this
it is 9.30pm here and it’s 6 hours ahead in singapore
9.30 plus 6 = 15.30 = 3.30am
that’s all. so easy to calculate time difference
just add the hours and then decide if it’s
day or night
easy.
that bird with the white stripe
like a naamam down from head to beak-edge
its short high-pitched calls
all black
i like it not a duck
it’s not
