tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49074969834876274002023-11-16T03:12:15.007-08:00RamblingsNiranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-16688974046032620582013-03-28T14:09:00.001-07:002013-03-28T14:09:48.976-07:00This is not in defence of Bobby Pawar. But then again, it may be.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Years ago, maybe in 1998 or 1999, there was
a building near K. C. College in Churchgate called Apeejay House.</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">On its sixth floor, there was an ad agency
called Ogilvy & Mather. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Inside that agency, some of the country’s
coolest minds sat together and did some of the coolest ads of that time. Ads
that had slowly started putting India on the international awards’ map. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During that period, some of my cool
colleagues in the creative department had done an ad for Ponds Blackhead
Removal Strips. The ad simply had a picture of Mickey Mouse without his nose,
and a quiet product shot at the bottom right corner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When this ad was created, I remember (I was
a nervous, young pencil-chewing copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather at that time)
the entire agency - both the creative guys and their servicing counterparts –
were excited about the idea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The idea was executed wonderfully and
presented to HUL, and then released in newspapers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Then came “The Disney Angle”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I remember the servicing head then bringing
up this problem to Piyush Pandey, Creative Head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“The Disney people are making some noise,”
the Servicing guy told Piyush, “over the fact that we cannot use Mickey Mouse.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“It is not Mickey Mouse,” Piyush replied
with his characteristic laugh. “Tell them, this is Tricky Mouse. He is not
identical, he is a little different.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The ad went on win several awards for the
team that created it, but am sure, that was not the team’s biggest reward.
Their biggest reward was the fact that their Agency Head had stood by them. And
more importantly, their idea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In that same period, I saw many ads that
used celebrities to make their point, and these were NOT celebrity
endorsements. It was the usage of someone famous, to make a funny point. That
was commonplace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was the norm, or at least seemed to be,
across the region. Many agencies in Singapore and other South East Asian
countries used George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe and the like. One
particular ad for Panadol showed George Bush Senior and George Bush Junior,
with the line – One is enough. This ad was done by the great Mr. Neil French,
no less. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During that phase, I personally wrote ads
with Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Andre Agassi Cacofonix from Asterix Comics and
Bob Dylan. Some of them won, some of them didn’t, but that’s not the point. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What is important is the fact that the kind
of energy an agency encouraged. Creative people were allowed to think freely.
They were allowed to have a point of view. And using a famous person in a comic
style illustration was nothing serious because people back then had a sense of
humour. At least ad agencies did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It was in such an environment that I first
met Bobby Pawar – one of the finest advertising writers this country has ever
had. Among other things, many young writers (including yours truly) learnt how
to hold a pen by just watching him write his fantastic campaigns for Tata Sumo,
Tata Safari and Britannia Hide & Seek Biscuits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Bobby, like the rest of us, was nurtured in
such an environment, an environment that encouraged creative people to think
freely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Over the years, I worked at several
agencies in India and Singapore, agencies like Batey, Contract and McCann, and
I saw this very environment get steadily polluted by “anti-scam” lobbyists,
basically people who weren’t gifted enough to win awards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Okay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Here you might raise an eyebrow and wonder
if I am supporting something as deplorable as scam ads. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yes, I am, and I am doing that for reasons
I believe in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Scam, in my opinion, is just a craft
enhancement exercise for writers, art directors and designers. It is something
that lets you experiment with the tools of your trade – tools like photography,
typography and writing style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now invariably, when you are designated to
work on a brand that comes heavily burdened with “international brand guidelines”,
there is little room for a creative guy to experiment with the very brush he
chose to wield for a living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After ten months of romancing Frutiger, a
font he hates, he gets a month to play with other typefaces. Hence he or she
chooses the quiet month of December to display his or her own skills, to do
things differently, to explore one’s own craft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">That’s that. Nothing more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At best, awards should be considered as an
avenue for a creative business to display its best creative talent. And it
should be left at that. That is how pure it should be. And it was that very
purity that gave us great artists like Neil French, Indra Sinha, Lionel Hunt,
Susie Henry, Piyush Pandey and Nancy Rice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But somewhere, that purity was lost and
SCAM became a four-letter-word, like AIDS. Those who dealt in it started
getting treated like lepers and drug dealers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I’ve always wondered why. Who goes to bed
hungry because someone did a scam ad? How is that harmful to the world? How is
it even harmful to an industry that feeds off and thrives on the talent of
creative people in the first place? Why can’t we leave it at that? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But no. We will not leave it at that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We will celebrate awards but we will shun
scam. We will continue to chase awards as an industry, we will want to be known
as the coolest (read most-awarded) agency in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We will hire cool creative minds like Bobby
Pawar to head our agency because we want to be known as the most awarded agency
at Cannes next year. We will put unreasonable pressure on that guy to go out
and win at all costs. We will expect him to do it despite “international brand
guidelines”. After all, it’s that quality that brings out the champion in you,
isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In that process, a cheeky Ford Figo
campaign comes out of JWT. It is an entry at Goafest, which means it clearly
comes with the blessings of the client, at Ford. Nothing can be entered at
Goafest without a client approval letter, and we all know that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After it comes out, it goes viral. And
pisses off Berlusconi’s supporters (if he had any). And it pisses off the
Kardashians. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it pisses off too many
idiots on social media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ford reacts to the international flak. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">JWT needs to retain the business, it needs
to look like a responsible and responsive agency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So what does it do? It sacks Bobby Pawar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It sacks the guy for trying to create an
atmosphere in the agency where creative minds can flourish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It sacks him for trying to create an
environment he grew up in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">An environment that started dying when
Ogilvy & Mather moved out of a building near K C College. A building called
Apeejay House. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-83979224633299404482010-02-28T07:11:00.000-08:002010-02-28T07:15:51.248-08:00Like A Sad Spanish SongLike a sad Spanish song,<div>it started sorrowfully,</div><div>piercing the heart with </div><div>the utter ruthless cruelty </div><div>that only love is capable of. </div><div>It hurt, like a million needles,</div><div>every verse, every stanza</div><div>wrenched the insides like</div><div>cancer cells in a maddening hurry.</div><div>And then it faded away, </div><div>into the distance</div><div>into the sea</div><div>or into some unsuspecting soul</div><div>like a sad, sad Spanish song. </div>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-22940729459158476482009-10-13T05:00:00.000-07:002009-10-13T05:07:09.526-07:00Wisdom<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"I want to change </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">the world," said the child.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"You can't, little one," </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">said the family elder. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The little one went on</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">and changed the world.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">"I knew he could," said</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">the family elder. "But </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I wasn't sure if he would. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">And that's why I told him</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">that he couldn't,</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">many, many moons ago."</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-64849668355293570742009-10-11T03:45:00.000-07:002009-10-11T03:59:33.507-07:00Why<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">There's mush, there are rooms,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">And there are mushrooms. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">A sneaky whisper floats past</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Questioning the moment that </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Exists without shame or guilt.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Or even remorse. The reality,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">the blur that pretends to be </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">sharp, and pregnant with </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">onboxious clarity is elusive.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Hey, it's there now, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">hey, where the fuck has it gone, huh?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Never mind the truth, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">never mind Amsterdam,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">never mind the European Union.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Never mind the joy,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">never mind the pain, </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">never mind the yin, the yang,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">and whatever the Chinese say. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Let's instead head to Shanghai</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">to see what makes them tick,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">beneath the cheap technology,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">and the video and audio piracy. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Sow Lin Hoe, dear Sow Lin Hoe,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Are you a friend or a foe?</span>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-73588966165625962272009-10-11T00:41:00.000-07:002009-10-11T01:22:03.152-07:00Forget Floyd<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Insanity lurks reluctantly</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">on a Sunday afternoon;</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">with litres of lager and two martinis, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">dreams watching life pass by</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">at 72 frames per second. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Must we be delighted </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">with this momentary lapse, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">this partial eclipse of reason?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Breathe, I say. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Forget Floyd, for now,</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">and breathe in the air. </span></span></span></div>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-25387654290656438072009-09-30T03:54:00.001-07:002009-09-30T03:55:04.729-07:00The Countess<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Your name may be common and trite<br />But you come to haunt me every night,<br />Buzzing in my ear<br />Without a trace of fear<br />And gently shove your needle-nose<br />Into my fingers and my toes<br />And suck on till I am bloodless.<br />You little miniature Countess,<br />Why, when your husband's deeds<br />Are so noble that he feeds<br />Only on the fruits of trees,<br />Do you puncture my arteries?<br />Generations of repellent,<br />Which were clearly meant<br />To wipe out your existence,<br />Have failed against your resistance.<br />And so, about you, I must say this thing:<br />You are responsible for inspiring<br />That real evil fella<br />Called Count Dracula.</span></span></span>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-92181439747303494452009-09-30T03:50:00.001-07:002009-10-04T04:45:00.761-07:00Dark Day Tomorrow<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Said Sunshine to darkness one night,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Let’s get the bloody fundamentals right.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In some time you will disappear</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And all you will become is a mere</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thought, a memory, a part of the past.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And when I generously cast</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Myself on the world and its people</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They’ll be happy. It’s that simple.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Darkness was unperturbed. He looked fine.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After a while, he said, “Look Sunshine,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I am sure you have met my first cousin,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The one who's presently in Wisconsin.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">His name? Mr. Dark Cloud, remember him?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He might, just might, on a whim</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Stand between you and the world all day.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana" size="x-small" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And I’ll still exist, despite going away.”</span></span></p></span>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4907496983487627400.post-10363111672564289172009-09-30T03:41:00.000-07:002009-09-30T03:59:14.080-07:00The KittenShe came, she snuggled.<div>Tinier than my palm, </div><div>tinier that the rats she'd eat </div><div>after growing up. </div><div>Like all of them, </div><div>she was confused first,</div><div>then content. </div><div>And then, she left. </div><div>Again. like all of them do. </div>Niranjan Kaushikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05681384536788777828noreply@blogger.com0