Kalki Koechlin, in her new poem, takes us on a journey aboard an 'airlines' called Modern Life. First published in antiserious.com, the poem has a message and serves more as a wake up call than the soothing sweet nothings flight attendants often utter on board. Read on.

What do you want?

Don’t be shy.

Babes in bikinis?

Old men with cheque books ripping?

The diamond ring?

And the regular sound of Ka-ching Ka-ching?

We have that.

We have boxes of compromises,

Botox injections, facelifting incises,

Sliced skin, stuffed up to enlarged sizes,

Every possible idea of beauty exploited,

To ease the wallets of misers.