a rushing ‘sea’ of smell
in a forced admixture

miscrea(n)t-ed atmosphere

of sweatloads, staling skinsalts
and stinking choking what-nots
seeded in distrustful matrices

teastalls steamed
but with hardly any
coffee n tea aroma
the weary eyes of diverse
tongued ‘seas’ pooling in
grabbed them too
[‘them’, with a.i., the hot waters]
in an assumed refueling

‘namesake’ officials from nowhere
like the ‘[ill-]avatars’, paraded at random
of suddenly-mutated decent n justified shops
in ‘unannounced inspections’
[‘of what?’] for records..
…and made sure, had a seriously devouted
‘crowdfollowing’ hastening behind

perhaps their best scene: as they ran
to the extreme corner in a concerned
masquerade, over the buzzing in and out
paid toilets—phew, a nauseating zone
that their manipulative nostrils
were in quick n easy denial…of
almost cell-cleaving stench

clueless ‘seas’:
rather made puppets and unheard
than even those tented
streetdogs to crows to species one named
all in that humdrum mess
still surprisingly surviving
like the very ‘seas’ it held
that ‘Romanesque’
monumental #Southern junction

the ‘seas’ watched around
as they flowed
those planted blockades
in cleverly-staged distractions

somewhere on their minds
they knew and still knew not
their curtailed freedom
in their daily becoming
“Dead Seas”

lost smiles and laughter
lost course to the oceans

(c) uj 241015

as published on my fb page

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ci5pbai4E/?mibextid=wwXIfr

pic: by self- image collage of #ChennaiCentralRailJunction