Raj Arumugam Poems

the donkey jumps
in the fields and says:
Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!
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is it like a sore on the elbow
that itches and one scratches
and it itches more?
and so sorrow sits in one’s heart
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one thinks one comes to truth
to understanding and wisdom
through revelations and Holy Texts
and attendance at great congregations;
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from thought to thought
one’s mind goes
like water filling cups
of various shapes
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the proud creature breathes and lives
and all it does is copy, copy, copy, copy;
there is so much thinking
done before and after
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the morning started with fog
and now late, a dark sky hangs over Brisbane;
in the West a child has scrawled
untidy clouds
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one more poem, baby,
one more poem;
one more just to
increase my numbers
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driving on the highway
just one alone in the car
there’s just one
and the earth
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TV says to radio:
I’m better than you
cos I’ve got pictures and sound
while you’ve only got the latter
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