Around the world in 80 SECONDS

Well, read the whole thing, and you can travel the world in 80 seconds. Hope you can read slowly to get the jist of travelling the world in the so-prescibed 80 seconds. Well, at least your conscious and mind can.

The city with a quiet beach and a melancholy life
The start of the journey, please take your seats politely
We fancied its name from Madras to Chennai
Hell’s here for passer-bys, a heaven for me-a congenital guy.

We head east to the cities of the mandarin and cantonese
Shanghai and Hong Kong….polluted and populated
Corrupted in the fastest lanes of money and mobile phone
Raped by forwards of men, life is dead and belated.

Tokyo shines in the limelight of tall skyscrapers of progress
Simplification still continues, slow and easy
They kneel to eat, bow to greet
Fast trains to commit sure suicide, slow and easy.

Over the pacific to LA, city of stars and cars
Dreams fulfilled and dreams shattered for that stars and cars
Fashion statements of the losers and intellectuals
Endorsement made to suck you in.

The Chicago wind blows your mind off
A shady Philadelphia leaves you a hangover
New York still remains enigmatic and classy and business-like
Its still America, just take cover.

The Rio festival is made for your will
Because only then you wont care about your horniness
The Argentinians will show you a thing called hospitality
Mask you before their slyness and cunningness.

Atlantic is fast, the time to cross it is even faster
London gives you the big bang
A bridge to cross over
And the countryside on your ears sing.

Paris is nice.. sweet and sour as its etiquette
Always the one to tell you where to start and where to end
Shopping for the silly girls, football for the silly boys
For you they invented the kiss, rules they like to bend.

The Berlin and Munich are my fantasy cities
So many thinkers thought about so much
But forgot to mend their disputably futile flaws
They covered it up with some European touch.

Moscow is beautiful, the pictures will suggest
Heights don’t matter to them, nor does fast
They live their own way, drinking and saving
One time is enough to know them, an arrogant blast.

The town of Kabul is quiet right now
It bustled, I have heard, once upon a time
The lights were brighter and the clown always laughed
The dark guys of the east and the fair guys of the west, burnt it.

The city of all Indian dreams called itself Bombay
It shouted all day and all night long
Hearts prayed out every second, wishing to be rich
All deluded in, depressed in or just come and gone.

We are back my passengers to the city we started
The hot weather and the darkest people greet you
The smile on each faces here is evident
Welcome back to heaven and hell, the city of Chennai, elusive u can tell.

(28^th April, 2007. 2.15 A.M. The title is stolen from an existentialist’s thought about the changing life of the world. The whole idea and perception of man being able to fly and travel the earth in 80 hours. Which was beyond human thought. So I made up went a step ahead to prove that we can travel the earth in 80 seconds. Guess, I’m an existentialist. And it’s a nice feeling.)