Peeling an orange,
     an extended image,
          a few old poems,
              a cup of hot metaphors,
                  a cache of modifiers,
       a verb: reading
             morning newspaper.

        A couple takes on three robbers,
               movie star jailed for killing Black Bucks,
               killer drivers absconding,
                   two pages of alabaster skin
                          advertising creams,
                               a shower of adjectives
                                   on Bush, Blair, Saddam and Osama.

         Sonia playing her trump cards,
                                      Manmohan the puppet,
         Kalam, the great president,
                         Dr Putin? He cheated, say scholars,
         Hizb chief Salahuddin
                             surfaces in public in Pak.
                    A morning newspaper,
                         a half-peeled orange,
                             an extended image,
                                  a box of metaphors.

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        Ambani resigned from Rajya Sabha,
             walked fluorescent underground arcades,
                  riding crocodile elevator,
                        spoke to media in bubble words,
                                 flowery bubbling words,
                                       about accountable accounts.
                  A morning newspaper,
                             a cache of modifiers
                                        smoked, sprayed and perspired.

      Bollywood has a blast at the games,
             Celluloid beauties have MCG in thrall.
                 British rising star, who is rising
                      for ten years, Henman, dumps
                 Hewitt, Clijsters falls to Craybas.
Last two pages cover advertisements,
           begging, fricken advertisements,
                   smelly, enameled, glossy advertisements.
           No news on genocide in Africa,
                    no column on jail tortures in Iraq.
  An extra supplement, opportunities,
       inform MNC job openings,
            consultants faking resumes,
                 window dress dreams.
       A morning newspaper,
           an extended image,
                a few stitched poems,
                  a pair of metaphors,
                      a pack of modifiers,
                            a lighter.

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