jabberwocky

Crysta
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Just like Vicky was not short for Vikram
Crysta is not short for anything.
crysta is an animal..not just a dog
she is a maandhi, a bit of a praandhi too

you scratch her and she will show you what ecstacy means to a dog
and when you tire and stop.. she'll guide your hand again.
if you resist.. she will position her neck against your raise foot and
shake her head against your leg and be rubbed or scratched by default
she found ways to work around the system.

Crysta was as inelegant and as clumsy as vicky was smart and regal
crysta was also quite ugly.....
and she got nice and fat.
typical street variety that.

In an other day and place we troubled her
just that once... it was for the country.. so
its excused.
uday, vinod, sarita and I
suddenly switched on the TV and we are getting
thalped .. NatWest Trophy.. England.
Yuvraj is out...
looks bleak.. who is Kaif?

we crowd around the tv, aunty gives us murukku
and discuss our eventual defeat
crysta jumps on the teapoy
kaif hits a four
crysta jumps off
kaif almost gets bowled
heart beats accelerate
kaif can't connect bat with ball
four deliveries down
crysta jumps on the teapoy
no ball called
next delivery... kaif hits four
and then two.
crysta goes down
no runs scored off the next 3 deliveries...
we pull crysta onto the teapoy.. and hold her there
kaif hits four.... and four.... and four
and the rest is history.. it took somtime --nearly an hour
crysta was edgy and nervous.. and everytime we screamed for a four
she got so nervous.. she almost had a nervous breakdown.
but we held her down...till the end of the match.. till it was all over
till yuvraj came running to jump on kaif.. till they fell on the ground
the whoel of india celebrated.. they think it was kaif...
we know its crysta.