# Brand New Parachutes

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**Author:** Suhail Sohal
 **Pages:** 56 **Year of Publication:** 2014 **Price:**
Rs 100 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-094-9 (9789350450949)

_**About the Author**_
 Suhail Sohal received his MBBS degree from SGRRIMS, Dehradun,
in 2011, and is practising medicine at Chandigarh. He was born in Amritsar and studied
in schools across the country as per the postings of his father, an army officer.
This is his first book of poems.

_**Teaser**_

_Cherry red_

Out of the 3 things that have always
 been absent from this earth, Only you are 
the one, who is dancing, The rest, whom they call the ‘others’, Are busy being absentees.

And after all the truth still rests
 to the right, Isn’t it so? And you, And you
dance to the left, My left and your left too.

A cherry tree in my veranda,
 A fruit of spring, My cherry red ‘odd’ My cherry red
girl.

Asterix, Aladdin, broken helmets.
 Asterix, Aladdin, broken hearts. Asterix, Aladdin,
broken helicopters. Asterix, Aladdin, broken dreams.

_**Contents**_
 _Foreword_ / 9 Algebra / 13 Nerd / 14 100 years of love poems / 
15 An ode to the ‘I, me and they she’ times / 16 Free me / 18 To Kafka, Franz. /
19 Gums, Nails and Oesophagus / 21 Absent / 22 Time Machines / 23 Melancholia / 
24 Rats / 26 Cancer / 29 The story of an old patience / 30 Cherry red / 32 School/
33 The Domesticated Dog / 34 Newspapers/ 36 The man who spoke mice, talked plague/
38 War / 39 Octopus / 40 Brand New Parachutes/ 41 Oesophagus / 43 Tablet / 44 The
Duck Tale / 46 Wasted Wanderers / 48 The United Nations of Freelancers / 49 The 
Man on the Sidewalk / 50 The Last Poem / 52