The Joke's on You (courtesy The Killing Joke)

When the world seems full of care
and every tagline screams despair
When everything is rape, starvation, war and life's vile
Then there's a certain thing I love to do
which I shall pass along to you
Guaranteed to make me smile

I go loony like a light bulb battered bug
Simply loony and even foam and chew the rug
Excuse me Sir, life is swell in a padded cell
It'll chase those blues away
You can barter your gloom for a rubber room
injections and happy pills twice a day

Just go loony like a toxic casualty
Or a moony or a preacher on stupid TV
When the human race puts on an anxious face
when the bomb hangs over your head
when your kid turns blue it shouldn't worry you
You can smile and nod instead

When you're loony you just don't give a dig
Man's so funny and the universe so big
If you're hurt inside, get certified
and if your life should treat you bad,
don't get even, get MAD.....

The Fly Who Couldn't Fly

Flies. Admirable insects. Yucky for some but fascinating for few. It's just strange how they lead their lives. Flying around faeces, hanging upside down from the walls. Admirable indeed.

This is a story of a fly named Ae-ro. He used to be the happiest fly in the fly kingdom, not to mention in the world of humans too. Sitting by the table where the humans drop their food and he would land happily on it, vomiting on the food so that he could suck in all the nutrients out of it. That's how Ae-ro always spent his time. The humans hated him only because he was a pest. He never even bothered them though. Ae-ro always wanted to convince the humans that he was not like the others. He was different.

It was the coffee shop that he first came across Sarah. Sarah was the most beautiful creature that he had ever laid eyes on. She had the prettiest eyes, her movements were like the ones of a ballet dancer and her voice was something simply out of this world. Sarah went to the same coffee shop he went to and she sat on the same table that he sat on but they never ever spoke to each other.

Ae-ro fell in love with her the very moment he saw her and every day he would find himself more in love with her. Even at nights when his friends were sleeping, sticking against the walls, he would simply fly around the darkness, thinking how would he profess his love to her. He had finally decided, tomorrow will be the day I would talk to the love of my life for the first time.

Every second of that night seemed like an eternity to him. But he tried to wait patiently for the sun to rise when he would get to meet his beloved Sarah. As soon as the sun cleared the darkness, he flew as fast as could but fast simply wasn't good enough. That's when an idea struck him. He was a fly. He could easily sneak into a car and take a ride till the coffee shop. He looked around for some kind of transportation and boom, he found one. He saw a human girl wearing a hood and big sunglasses sitting in her car just about to leave. He quickly got into the car and off he went.

Ae-ro's heart was pounding so hard that he couldn't help flying in excitement. He observed the human behind the wheel but he couldn't see her face. She was humming a tune to a song being played on a radio and eating some Cheetos. Ae-ro was pretty hungry too so he flew across the seat to get some of those cheetos but unfortunately he landed on the human's hand. She was quite taken aback by the little insect crawling on her hand and she accidentally swerved the car in her fright. Ae-ro was scared by this act too and he flew right off the window. He didn't bother looking back at the car but he was sure that he heard a loud blast after a while.

He waited for Sarah at the coffee shop for quite some time. Then quite some time turned into hours, then days, then weeks. Ae-ro finally died waiting for her without any food or drink. Sarah never came back.



She will never know who Ae-ro was. She was a human who always came to the coffee shop to have a cup of coffee after a pack of Cheetos.