fine tuned ears 
deafened to realities,  
silenced sorrows and soulful solilloquies 
of  these ultra-modern muddled times 
reach out in greedy eagerness 
to embrace the shallow morals 
of the soul-wrenching skits of the stupid boxes.
sreelekha premjit
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