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Satish died yesterday
Nita told me
in my dreams this morning
that is when I lie
in the drawing-room sofa
after picking up
the milk packets from the door- 

I spoke to him last night.
No, he was run over by a speeding truck
on the Cadell Road
near Bankers Training College 

The last I heard from him was
on the haiku yahoo group-
he wrote something about
coincidentally accidents
but it was of life
and not ones like this- 

As I went from lunch back to my desk
there was this bundled group message
again
where he wrote to Ram
that he would rather go
and kill that bastard of the Dhobi
rather than putting Sita to fire-test-
but that can't be said Ram
you can't put the whole world to death
even if all were bastards
because of gossiping which all do-
it's all prewritten on your head- 

But Satish is not the one to buy
he can't take the vada pav
and the associated amoebiasis
to blame on the head-writing..
but can not answer the question
why in the first place did he
decide to eat like
drinking for the sake of company
or to promote sales of your company- 

He just said simply because I do not know
it doesn't become Einstein's relativity story
the synonym of ignorance is not unproven
it could at best be arguing
simply because you do not indulge
in arguments
when you know and are not ignorant- 

but what happened in the death of
Satish is beyond doubt
an accident
irrespective of his having been
ignorant or otherwise to have
been driving after a drink too many
on such a road
in Mumbai-
at least that is what the police say..
 

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