Bios-fear

What do you call the irrational fear some folks have about not being able to write their biodata?

Bios-fear!

The Stake

Half a million women
were burnt at the stake
by the church during
medieval times. Were the
self-deluding clerics
not born of mothers?

- Max

Metal

The Goodman diagram
in metal fatigue studies
deals with mean stress!

- Max

Goodman diagram:
explaining metal stress to
relieve mental stress.

- Raamesh

Two days of metal
fatigue lectures have caused us
all mental fatigue!

- Max

Don't beat the metal
so much, it becomes me-n-tal!

- Alaka

Beating the shit out
of metal brings out
unexpected magic!

- Max

Butterfly

Can one imagine a butterfly,
footloose and fancy free,
sucking, glued to the same flower,
on the same crazy tree?

- Max

Civilisation

Why do people drop
their masks and chase you, yapping
and snapping at your heels?

- Max

Civilisation
is a passion play of masks,
barely hiding fangs.

- Raamesh

Has any civilisation
purged uncivilised
outer fringes?

- Max

Civilisation:
fragile Venetian glass that
bottles seething rage.

- Raamesh

We produce rage like
mucus, phlegm, semen. Or fart,
pee and helpless shit?

- Max

Civilisation:
Zoo that restrains
baser instincts.

- Alaka

Commoners giggle
at mummified kings who
slaughtered their ancestors.

- Raamesh

Human power so
transient, ephemeral,
intoxicates.

- Max

Dreams

The dreams of poets
are the forgotten inklings
of the Gods.

- Ben Okri

Dreams: Freakish inspirations
sneaking into alien visuals?
Mind's mischief braving
territories inaccessible?
Or intellect's revenge
on placid blocks of mundanity?

- Max

Maneater

With smoky wispy shadows
thronging my avenues,
besieging my soul
and terrorizing my heart
- even a maneater
with fire in the belly,
I would clasp to my bosom.

- Max