Monday, October 06, 2008

Consumer is King!

Ive spent hours with the consumer
Looking for that elusive insight
But I hear not a sound nor a murmur
For its forever out of sight!

And then I think and think and think
To get the right words to frame
A sensible insight on paper with ink
But none to me that came.

Anyways, as always, there is something
Which can be passed on as 'eureka'
Beauty is a superficial plaything
asli khoobsoorati ko kisne dekha?

Thus came about floating in the air
A big balloon from around the globe
Trying to turn all maidens fair
Which could very well have been done on adobe

The intent is pretty, its sheer poetry
Beauty has no age, no caste no creed no bar
But a pink balloon with a bathtub frothy
Might be taking it a bit too far!

Much as I may scorn all this as nonsense
While still playing along as a marketeer
As a consumer, I love being a little dense
And succumb to the message from the beauty seers

The same nonsense makes me go gaga
And nod emphatically at the dialogues
As if we are together in this great saga
And everybody else are a bunch of rogues

No matter who one is, what one does,
One still loves to be understood
And let everyone make such a fuss
over an insight inspiring greater good!

2 comments:

Nandita said...

I think u have surpassed urself!!! The "frothy bathtub" floating in the air was sheer genius and yes though I know the origin of all marketing gab I fall for it all the time!!!

randomthots said...

arre wah!Kya poetry hain!Dil ko chhoon gaya!!I am on this with you buddy...yeah, we pooh pooh this crap of superficial beauty but over and over again we fall in its trap hook line and sinker.Perhaps there is an insight here! :)