Squiggles And Scrawls And Twisted Sayings Poem by Ananta Madhavan

1. "Come Weal, come Woe,
My status is quo."

2. Twisted Proverbs
i. ‘Well begun is half done'.
For me it means, 'well begun
Is more than half undone'.

ii. True, the future's not ours to see';
But it is ours to imagine,
To speculate upon,
Which can be pleasant.


iii. Sometimes people say that X or Y or Z
is in a ‘win-win situation'. I sometimes
find myself in a ‘lose-lose' situation. The
only consolation is that I do not have to choose
how I lose because it is chosen for me.

iv. I heard a quote: ‘Business is like a car; it will not
run by itself'. Except downhill?

v. You want the truth, the whole truth, nothing
but the truth?
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no fibs.

vi. ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder'.
Is it of someone else? One may wonder.

vii. ‘Better a witty fool than a foolish wit',
so said Will Shakespeare. I fear I am
a borderline case. But what if one lacks
both the wit and the redemptive folly?

viii. "When ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise".
That was Francis Bacon, who did not write
Shakespeare. Was he blissful or foolish then?

ix. The sales Ad. and the Sales App entice me:
"Book now, our updated offer: it is a steal! "
"You can't afford to miss this offer."
I recall the idiom on Stealth as Wealth:
"It takes a thief to catch a thief".
So sorry, I cannot covet your stealth.