- be a manager
- of a Premier League football team.
- be a hooligan,
- a local at any one of the English football clubs, know all the songs, and travel with the team.
- bat, chew gum and not wear a helmet,
- like Vivian Richards.
- get cast as the youngest son.
- Michael Corleone.
- not be named Kuntal.
- Bond, James Bond.
- like mushy tomatoes,
- but only when avoiding bulls in La Tomatina in Buñol.
- have a milk mustache
- and live on a quiet farm in the Italian Alps.
- run
- and bike and swim like a triathlete.
- work remotely
- on clever things on an Apple laptop.
- fight injustice
- by telling bullies over the phone "you'll hear from my lawyer."
- have no quiet celebrations
- and do dandiya on every Indian festival.
- say "kai po chhe" every Sankrant,
- when flying a kite strung with glass-covered manja.
- be witty
- and get published in The New Yorker as a short story writer.
- be a purveyor of fine writing instruments
- and write cursive as neatly as my dad would, with a smooth Hero fountain pen.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
In my most ideal life, I'd
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