Straight from the *art

It has been a long long hiatus since the last blog. I often wonder what is that which inspires me to write. I spent some time thinking about it. When narcissism gave way to pragmatism and pragmatism waved me to soul searching, I realized what inspires me the most - hate. Sarcasm, scathing similes and wild ridicules seem to be the only things Wren and Martin ever taught me. And the feeling of somebody really appreciating this raw sense of humor is the incentive for me to think and churn out crap.
But then, I am no Charles Dickens or Wordsworth. Neither I have had an Oliver twisted life nor am I surrounded by daffodils to be engulfed with fertile imagination. Peace for me is weekend and Nature's beauty is a once in a year trip to a hill station. Every aspect of poetry has become a commodity in my life. I rhyme only to curse my job. I am in a trance only during meetings. Patriotism is my Indian passport which I want to trade for a green card. Love is a boring Yash Chopra hallucination. Spirituality is reminding God of the reward points I get for each prayer I say (Hey Hanumanji, I think its been 3 weeks since I committed my last paap. How about an MBA degree?). And then come the genres of poetry I have my life hinged on - Satires and Elegies. None of the people who I hate have died yet (Hanumanji, this is for you), still, I have elegies prepared for them, just in case. And while they live, I have in some corner of my brain, a tireless printing press churning out one sardonic satire followed by the next.
For all that stupid deification of love and all that is supposedly nice, hate is that which makes this world run. Without it, half of the world will come to a standstill. Imagine a Karunanidhi, a Thackeray, a Bin Laden without a hairy halo of hate - whoosh, they vanish! If Edison didn't hate darkness, he would not have invented a light bulb. If Alexander Graham Bell hadn't hated seeing the faces of the people he had to talk to, he wouldn't have invented a telephone! Likewise, every activity in the world today is to replace the things world hates with new things to hate later. To tell you the truth, I have already begun to hate the way I write.
Hence, I invite all you people who hated this blog to write hateful comments so that I can hate you all the more!