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Volume 7


Outside: Looking In - January 2011


Verse

Written by
Hussain Kazmi

Hussain Kazmi helps prevent robots from taking over the world by contributing exasperating solutions in the field of machine learning. Tackling one nemesis at a time, biographies are next on his ever growing to-do list. 

        
      
       
            
              
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                Sonata in B(laspheme) Major              

              

              
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Moonlight Sonata drifts through the open window;

Sinister passages of haunting beauty,

borne upon the night’s argent gossamer;

The raven and the rowan

perched on a sill,

the only other audience to this performance.


Later still

Fragments of Orff

blaring melodies, destined to be recycled endlessly;

I whisper a prayer to Dionysus,

forgetting momentarily that wine and roses

music and idyllic bliss

are taboo in my homeland.


On reflection,

the way they created their respective autumns –

one bleak and desolate, deciduous;

the other vibrant and tender, sensuous –

makes me believe

more in Vivaldi

and less in god.

            

        

        

           
          

            
 

            
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