Anarchic Analogy

I first saw him at my cousin’s place. I must have been around eight or ten, and there was this weird being with long hair, black hat and his walk was even more weird than his attire. Whether he was black or white… it was difficult to tell.

At that party there, it seemed everybody was in a fit…. Talking and singing some gibberish... It was Loud and in a nasal tone. Their moves were such that it looked like they had a seizure...hands going in one direction, the waist in another, and feet in a third… All of a sudden, it seemed, the boys had been kicked in their box... All of them grabbed their crotch, and let out a shrill cry… That really scared the sh*t out of me! I rushed out of room… with a cushion…. for protection… My God! That weird man must have been really dangerous.

‘Curiosity killed the Cat’, is a saying well known to most. But my reading was not particularly great at that age, and my shrivelled brain did not posess the capacity to understand it. The craziness and madness lured me… and with small sheepish steps I went inside. That weird man was still doing his weird moves… and my cousins were trying to copy. Each doing a more shoddy job than the other! One of them beckoned me to walk like him, and in the effort… I landed flat on my nose. In anticipation that he would say something kind… I looked at him, but he merely let out another shrill cry. And at that, with my nose purple (red and black maked purple), and tears rolling down, I realised that he was bad…. Really reallly BAD.

But my crying really did the trick. It was louder and shriller than his, and it caught my uncle’s attenttion… he rushed in… And smart slap landed on one of my cousin’s cheek. Suddenly everything went silent…. And still. The hands remained where they were, and so did the crotch. Everything…everybody…still… it seemed as if somebody had pressed the pause button… Yes, even that weird man stood absolutely still….in the box he was dancing… with one hand on his crotch and the other one in the air. The lights in the room came on, and the lights in his box went out… Everything was so sudden… it was like the climax of an action film. Thank God! The thrill(er) had ended.