The Irony of That
Universe
By Chandraswari Swastya Respati
The universe we are
grabbing
It ends us up enjoying
strolling
Once,
Twice,
Thrice,
We catch the shoot on
our eyes,
kids are begging for
food with tears falling on their cheeks
Our thumbs are the saviours
of theirs from being starving
We have got a waterfall
made of honey
Also a never-ending
warm chimney
Instead of spending a
million for the vision,
we choose that
universe-sourced satisfaction
Both eyes are nailed on
Freya and her nation
Incubus get us,
Succubus rules us
Then here comes the
chained one
Revealing its omen once
its chain is broken
Many call believing in
its omen is gross,
to hide themselves
standing on the side of its pros
They act like bosses,
when they are actually
kneeling down to Koalemos
The Interpretation
“The universe we are grabbing”
Grabbing
here shows gadgets that are fit in our hand. “The universe we are grabbing”
means the virtual world, the world that can be grabbed through gadgets.
“It ends us up enjoying strolling”
Strolling literally
means walk in a leisure way. In the poem, it means we enjoy wasting time just
to ‘walk around’ in the virtual world.
“Once,
Twice,
Thrice,
We catch the shoot on our eyes,
kids are begging for food with tears falling on
their cheeks
Our thumbs are the saviours of theirs from being
starving”
The
thumbs here means ‘like’ as in Facebook. The shoot of kids begging for food
with falling tears show thread or post in Facebook with picture of crying
hungry kids with the caption of “1 like = 1 pray” or “1 like = food for them.”
“We have got a waterfall made of honey
Also a never-ending warm chimney”
These
two lines mean that we have enough or maybe more than enough to live well.
“Instead of spending a million for the vision,”
Vision
here can refer to two things: the Facebook thread in the first stanza and our
future.
“we choose that universe-sourced satisfaction
Both eyes are nailed on Freya and her nation
Incubus get us,
Succubus rules us”
The
‘that universe-sourced satisfaction’ can refer to any satisfaction coming from
virtual world. The next three lines make the kind of satisfaction more
detailed. Freya is a Norse mythologizal goddess in form of a very beautiful
lady and is associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, war, and death.
Incubus (male) and Succubus (female) are mythological demons from Medieval
Christian demonology that like to have sexual engagement with humans. Thus, it
means that the satisfaction is gotten from online porn.
“Then here comes the chained one
Revealing its omen once its chain is broken”
These
two lines refer to any kind of chained-mail/post/thread with the caption of
curse if we do not share them to others.
“Many call believing in its omen is gross,
to hide themselves standing on the side of its pros
They act like bosses,
when they are actually kneeling down to Koalemos”
Koalemos
is the god of stupidity in Greek mythology. These lines refer to the people who
act as if they are always right, as if they do not believe in the curse of
those chained mails/posts/threads, as if they are not as gross or as stupid
them who believe in the curse, but they are actually stupid enough to believe
in them.
Chandraswari S. Respati
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