| AS I SAT UNOBSERVED AT AN AIRPORT AND WATCHED PEOPLE YOUNG, OLD, SICK, GAY BORED, EXPECTANT, TIRED ANXIOUS, JOVIAL TALK, WALK, WATCH, SMOKE PRY, MEDDLE, IGNORE LAUGH, CRY, GRUMBLE, FRET; I ALSO THOUGHT OF A RAILWAY TERMINAL OR A BUS, OR TRAIN, OR EVEN HOUSES, THEATRES, STREETS; AND IMAGINED THEM IN THEIR VARIOUS HABITATS AND HABITS PLYING THEIR DAY'S BUSINESS, OR NIGHT'S JOYFULLY, INDIFFERENTLY, OR RELUCTANTLY AS IF DRAWN BY AN INVISIBLE FORCE OF AN UNKNOWN VORTEX THOUGHTFULLY, OR WITHOUT TO AN AIMLESS AIM I WONDERED: AND KNOWING MYSELF AS ONE OF THEM TRIED TO IMAGINE MYSELF BEING WATCHED TALKING WALKING, FRETTING AND DOING OR NOT DOING ALL THAT THEY DID OR DID NOT AND SAW MYSELF PULLED, PUSHED, DRAWN BY THE SAME UNKNOWN FORCE OR VACUUM OR WHATEVER INVISIBLE BUT INEXORABLY AND SLOWLY, UNHURRIEDLY LOOKING AT THEIR SHEER MASS AND MOMENTUM I REALISED THAT THE FORCE, THE VACUUM THAT PUSHED OR SUCKED WAS NONE OTHER THAN THE ONE CREATED BY THEMSELVES UNKNOWINGLY, UNREALISINGLY; THE MASSIVE ACT OF THEIR LIVING AND ONE INCUMBENT ACTIVITY LEADING TO ANOTHER ITSELF BECAME A POWER WHICH LIKE AN ATOMIC CHAIN REACTION ONLY GREW BY ITSELF CEASELESSLY INTO A TURBULENCE WHICH SPURRED THEM ONTO MORE AND IN CONFUSION TO FALLACIOUSLY ATTRIBUTE THIS HYSTERIA, THIS FRENZY TO SUPERNATURAL DESIGNS AND CONSIDER BY IT JUSTIFIED THE VAGARIES OF HIS NONEXISTENT EXISTENTIAL AIMS |
ramesh gandhi