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Poem Analysis: The Irony of That Universe

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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