Piggy

'Wodehouse wrote a
a pig, Empress of Blandings,
into a hero..
none else..
Mostly,
in fury,
you,
make us curry,
without a sorry..'
whistled the pink and white pig behind a fence on Link Road to Kartik and Ajoba on an evening with the sun on a downturn. He stood under a peepal inside October leaf droppings. He snorted a Hai, twiddled a short curve of a tail, and Ajoba thought laughed as Kartik took a video. He posed and Ajoba styled him Piggy; 'what a name,' thought Piggy but went along. When the three took a selfie, Piggy took the entire camera. 'No Satyajit Ray has clicked me. Thank you, Kartik. You are the first director, maybe the last, as the word is I am up for Sunday lunch,' said Piggy. Kartik beamed at somebody calling him a director and thought of taking him along to MAMI Film Festival or pack him in plastic as hand baggage; would make interesting company; if MAMI films turn boring, as they mostly do; Kartik could pass time feeding Lays to Piggy. For the moment, Piggy wanted to see his parents located in the bushes of LIC Colony; it seems they had placed on earth a new breed with one of them a turn witty; to escape stray dogs, the little fellow ran across the road, between the legs of an old man on a stick; old man fell, cursed: 'soovar ka baccha'; the little fellow speeded, braked a speeding scooter with the contents hitting the road; he squeaked and left; parents are searching and Piggy wants to help; they have filed a missing complaint at the police station; but the police said they could not do much without a pix and a pig pix is not on; yet, the world of pigs is tight; Kartik and Ajoba offered to take Piggy to LIC Colony; 'no, we have our little prides,' said Piggy; in turn, offered to click the camera and capture his large hidden family; 'soovar achcha hai; kuch bhi khata hai' said a lady living on the footpath. The evening downlight turned down, down ...split by headlamps of speeding vehicles on Link Road. They wished Happy Deepavali. Piggy was not sure if he would be around; he was not sure if others like owls and dogs would be there. Walking back Kartik unwound the camera: bulky Piggy with the right foreleg up, between before and after a story.