Conversation with an Owl

Wei Wu Wei's owl just landed on my balcony! I had a conversation.

Me : Hello there. Where did you drop out of?

Owl : Dont address me. Would you address me in my absence. If you wont, then dont address me in my presence either.

Me : Why would I address you in your absence? People would think I am talking to myself

Owl : What inane split-minds to be put up with! Are you sure you are having a conversation with me, and not yourself? How can you be so sure of that?

Me : WTF??!!

Owl : Hoo Hoo

Universal Blanket Disclaimer

Karacaranakrtam vaak
kaayajam karmajam vaa,
Shravanananynajam vaa
maanasam vaaparaadham;
Vihitam avihitam vaa
sarvametat ksamasva,
Jaya jaya karunaabdhe
shreemahaadeva shambho.

“Sins committed in action—with the hands and feet or by speech, or by the body, or by the ears and eyes,—or by those done in thoughts,—forgive all these sins whether by inclusion or omission. Glory be unto Thee, Thou ocean of mercy! Glory be unto Thee O Mahadeva Shambho!”

~Sri Sankaracharya

Words

we speak
as if words themselves
have the power to make
birds fly

it is no wonder that you feel
this way, the world has changed
so much, just in the last ten
thousand years

words are perhaps not the same
as they were when they came out
of language, in fact, we once were
terribly worried about the moral effect

we have serious concerns
on what people might say, in verse,
even worse
that they might stir strange
ideas about....the
nature of things, even

Words are not gods

Poets, those, maker believers!
we shall make them tell us
what we don't know...