When Technology Fails

A Poem by Satish Verma

Your comatose countenance: punctuates a coronal spurt. Your comatose countenance: punctuates a coronal spurt.

Your comatose
countenance:
punctuates a coronal spurt.

Life will never
forget this insult and return
your freak awards.

The moon cancels
a lake meeting. You cannot
celebrate the arrival of night.

Helplessly, I scrap
the terror threat, though
your memory was severed in an ambush.

At ground zero,
a young couple starts a sit-in
against the raining sermons.