Monday, October 29, 2012

Glug and KIsmet

To continue with the story, one of the greatest romances (some swear that it is the greatest and sweetest and most magnificent) in the kingdom of Zlog has almost come to nought.

You might blame it on the hurricane Sandy, now downgraded to a tropical storm but this ofcourse is not the reason.

You might also say that pure love does not sell (although Titanic was a block buster but that again was in another era or epoch) but this too is not the reason.

Let us put forward the facts as Zlogspeare put it forward...Glug is only a poor water boy (Even though promoted twice) and Kismet is but a flower girl, pretty as she is.

In a case of mistaken identity Glug thinks of Kismet as royalty and Kismet vice versa. Zlogspeare in a severe case of writer's block ruminates on connecting the two lovers. How and when should they be unified? If unified should they be killed off?

There are only seven stories in the world - the rest are variations. Or are there ony five? Once we say something we are forced to defend it.

Meanwhile, in another age and strange place, the great election of 2012 has already been forgotten even before it has happened. How did this happen? Hurricane Sandy?

The great orator Obama is now at a complete loss of words, the words blown away by the power of the wind and the spitting rain. His competitor waits for the director of programs for idiot boxes to be brave enough to cover some thing else.  

But Zlogspeare, the universalist and naturalist might also have paused. For never should a wise man piss into the wind, especially during the fury of a hurricane.       

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Latest News from Zlog

Apparently Zlogspeare has been quiet for the last couple

But Zlog has not. Strange things have been happening.

Glug the waterboy has been banished from the Chancellor's palace.

And sadly so for he was only a whistle blower.

Klajah the thieving minister should have been implicated

But say no more - Justice should start from the bottom

In the Chancellor's mind.

Across centuries elections are about to begin

In a country far away from Zlog.

The citizens are mostly unconcerned -

For One man will win, the other will lose

It doesn't matter - there's not much to choose.

Can you really feel for a million people

No just touch your big toe and feel yourself.

Zlogspeare, pick up your pen old man

Start writing - I know you can.

  

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Zlog by Zlogspeare

Zlogspeare  

 
National poet and playwright of the kingdom of Zlog.
 
Contemporary of Sir. William Shakespeare.
 
The works of Zlogspeare were recently found in a treasure trove of rare finds unearthed
in an undersea expedition of the Aegean sea. The papyrus rolls were carefully rolled into the inner chamber of a triple chambered amphora miraculously sealed water-proof.
 
Of the plays that have been unearthed, Zlog is probably the most important work. A vastly unknown author Ravi Shankar has undertaken to uncover, decipher and translate this play and make it available to the discerning reader. To him humanity owes a debt of gratitude.